HOW THE FREEDMEN CHILDREN DO IT.
Mr. E. C. Silsby, of Selma, Ala., writes:
Our Sunday-school have been interested in the proposed missionary steamboat “John Brown,” for the Mendi Mission. Several Sundays ago we voted to take the contributions of subsequent sessions until they should amount to $10, to be sent on for the boat. A picture of the boat was drawn on the board and the contribution of classes recorded as given. The result is shown by the enclosed order for $10.20. A class of little girls who have a “mite box,” not only voted its contents, but held a fair for the sale of articles which had been prepared by their own deft fingers, under the direction of their teacher, applying the proceeds to the fund. May the boat do much toward carrying the “glad tidings.”
Rev. Evarts Kent, of Atlanta, Ga., writes:
I send you draft for the amount of our annual collection for the A. M. A. You will be interested to know that the contributions were mainly in small sums, from five cents to one dollar, and that there were eighty-five different contributions. I enclose you specimens of the envelopes I had printed for the purpose. I think they added somewhat to the amount. One little boy of ten years of age brought his envelope with five cents in it–the most generous contribution of all. He is the eldest of three brothers, all in the Storrs school, kept there by a mother who is not a Christian, and extremely poor–so poor that when visited in sickness the other day by Miss Stevenson and Mrs. Kent the only dishes in the house were a tin plate, a tin spoon, one cup and a broken knife; we are helping them just now; but it was most touching when they called at the house last Saturday evening and found this lad getting his missionary envelope, received the Sunday before, “ready for to-morrow.” I doubt if Our Saviour has seen anything like it since that day when in Judea He was looking into the treasury.