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We ask the attention of our patriotic and philanthropic Christian readers to the letters from colored preachers which we publish to-day. These letters show the great acceptability and usefulness of the Witness to colored preachers, and we hope they will induce many to send them a gift so highly appreciated. For every dollar sent to the colored ministers’ fund, we will send the Weekly Witness to a colored preacher for one year. The first year of this effort we obtained the addresses of upwards of 2,000 preachers, to whom we sent the Witness. The whole number of preachers is said to be about 5,000. The second year we only sent it to preachers who asked for it, and only about 800 did so. Several have since written regretting that the paper was stopped. It would have been continued had they signified their desire to receive it. We think it likely that with the present excitement concerning emigration, many more could be reached, besides renewing these 800 as their time expires. Will our friends keep this fund supplied, that we may again advertise for the addresses of colored preachers wishing to receive the Witness? The best and perhaps only way of reaching the colored people of the South with instructive and elevating reading matter is through their religious teachers; and, as will be seen from the letters, they make a good use of the Witness in that way.
To the Editor of the Witness.
Culloden, Ga.
Dear Sir: Allow me space in your columns to acknowledge my thanks to our Northern friends, that they have interest enough in us to furnish the colored ministers here with the Witness; this is a grand way to diffuse Christian intelligence among a down-trodden race. May God bless them and you. You shall have my prayers for your success. I see that my subscription will expire on the 15th; please continue my paper for another year.
I am yours, etc.,
A. J. WILSON.
To the Editor of the Witness.
Anniston, Ala.
Dear Sir: I spent three sessions in Talladega College and Theological Department. During the three months’ vacation of each year I taught school at Anniston, Ala., my present location. During this time the President of the Woodstock Iron Co. had an eye upon my work. They have shown their sympathy by the erection of a neat little cottage, which has done its part as a parsonage. Besides, they pay a portion of my salary for teaching. I have charge of the colored school of this town. I commenced labor here in April, 1875. Since that time many have reformed and become stalwart Christian men and women. I claim only to have been an instrument in God’s hands to the salvation of souls.
Now to the dear friend who sends me the Witness. You may rest assured that your donation has not been as pearls cast before swine; it is as bread upon the waters, and if it doesn’t return to you in this life, it certainly will greet you in the far better land. I prize the Witness next to my Bible. It has been to me strength in weakness, light in darkness, a means of peace in times of trouble; in short, it has been food to my soul.
The Witness is valuable to me in a two-fold sense. First, the motive which prompted the giver; second, the vast amount of information it contains which I could not find or get elsewhere. My only wish and constant prayer are that every colored preacher on the globe may have the Witness. I am fraternally yours in Christ,
P. J. McEntosh,
Pastor First Congregational Church, Anniston, Ala.
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Dear Editor: I have been kindly furnished with your valuable paper since last August to the present time. I am certainly grateful for the kindness of the friend that paid for it. May God bless him ten-fold. Inclosed in this you will please find an order for your valuable paper, The Weekly Witness. I induced six young gentlemen to pay twenty-five cents each, thereby raising the required sum.
May God bless you and your papers, for they are doing much good. I will do you the good I can. Let the friends in the pulpit who receive the Witness work for it, and work now.
Yours in Christ,
B. F. Martin (Colored).
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We point to the record of results of our work among the Freedmen during the last fifteen years, as indicating a degree of progress and an amount of fruitage rarely equaled in the same length of time. We base our claims for generous gifts, now and in the years to come, upon this showing, confident that this is the best argument we can make. Is it too much to claim to have been faithful over a few things, or to ask that we be trusted with what may be needful for the many which are at hand?
TO-DAY’S NEED.
The pressing need of to-day may be seen from the following appeal, which has appeared in some of the religious papers:
“The end of the school year of the American Missionary Association is near at hand. Its Teachers and Missionaries must soon return North, and will need the balance of their small salaries to enable them to do so. This necessary demand makes a special drain upon our treasury, and we, therefore, earnestly appeal to our friends to enable us to meet it without debt. We hope that churches whose collections occur now will make them as large as possible and remit promptly; and we ask our friends, in whose heart is a warm love for the cause, to come to our relief with special contributions for this emergency. In behalf of the Executive Committee,
M. E. Strieby, Cor. Secretary.”
TO-MORROW’S WANT.
Looking ahead, we see that the coming claims upon us must be greater than those of the past. The signs of the times indicate that the Lord’s work is to be done upon a larger scale in the near future; the progress, made and making, in our schools, and the call for enlargement in our church work, will make increasing demands upon us, until the time shall come when they shall be more largely self-supporting than it is possible for them to be now. We have done much——we are doing more——we must expect to do a still greater work. Give us the means, and plan large things for us in the days to come.
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