The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 8, August, 1896 by Various
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the State through the newspapers and it has been published.
Some of our young people are teaching, and others are at other work. There are very few summer schools here now, and those opened are only for primary grades. The Lincoln school is reaping honors at Tougaloo University. Two scholarships this year were won by two of our ex-graduates, and this gives Lincoln the honor of five such prizes won in that institution. We shall greatly rejoice when the pulpits and places of great responsibility are filled with intelligent leaders. We cannot but feel amused, yet distressed, at the mis-read Scriptures. One brother in his morning lesson from the pulpit said: "Brothers, we should be of the same mind--_one body_ and mind, for it says here, 'the twins shall be one flesh.'" A young man came to us, and asked help in writing his sermons. He had no Bible; I urged his purchasing one, as he could read. One day he came and said his text was the 14th of John. I inquired the passage. "Oh," he said, "I takes the whole chapter, and so I don' have to say much." It surely was the best way for his audience. Our class motto was "The Future needs us," and I trust all the class will fully realize how much they are needed. * * * * * ITEM. |
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