The American Missionary — Volume 49, No. 3, March, 1895 by Various
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center of a new work, and this message brings the hopefulness of the
field. * * * * * "We received five grown persons to our church fellowship on Sunday, and two children were baptized. Three Christian Indian families were constituted by Christian marriage at the same time. Praise God!" So writes Supt. C.L. Hall, of Fort Berthold Indian Mission, N.D. * * * * * ARE THEY GRATEFUL? REV. CHAS. F. SARGENT, THOMASVILLE, GA. Very often we are asked if the people among whom we labor are grateful for the work that is done for and among them--whether there is self-denial on their part in helping themselves in church and school work. It is very important that we should have some expression on their part in regard to this. There are many incidents in which grateful acknowledgment is made. A few incidents will best answer the above question. A little more than a mile from here there lives in an almost uninhabitable cabin an old lady who is called "Aunt Eliza." I saw her first one cold day last winter, when I called and found her in bed sick |
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