The Village Sunday School - With brief sketches of three of its scholars by John C. Symons
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page 33 of 35 (94%)
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I will only add,--and I rejoice that I am able to do so,--that each of
the brothers is now actively engaged in the work of God. James is the superintendent and manager of a Wesleyan Sunday-school; and in point of perseverance, and constancy in the prosecution of duty, he is quite a pattern. Thomas and George are very acceptable local preachers in the Wesleyan connection. May they ever be zealous in every good work, and have grace to continue faithful unto the end. "He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him." Psalm cxxvi, 6. "Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days." Eccles. xi, 1. APPENDIX. The following letter has been put into the writer's hands since the preceding pages were in the press, and will be read with deep interest, as containing an account of the death of one of the teachers of T---- street school, from the pen of her brother, James's colleague:-- "My beloved sister entered into the joy of her Lord about half-past twelve this morning. I sat up in company with Mrs. B. and another friend--it was a delightful night, there was a calm and cloudless sky, and the full moon shone in at the window in spite of the blind and |
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