The children are progressing very fast. Though I cannot yet boast of converts to Christ, yet I am cheered by the fact that here and elsewhere, among those who have attended the preaching of the Gospel, many are inquiring after the way of salvation. Last Lord’s day, an adult attended our Sabbath-school. Our present place of worship here is too small to seat the congregation who meet to worship with us. Thus, while we are called to suffer hunger and other inconveniences often, yet the signs of a successful future inspire me with hope and confidence, and nerve me to go on.
Let me have your prayers. I shall be glad to communicate as regularly as I can with you. I regard this as the Association’s field of labor. As soon as the buildings and chapel are completed, I hope to be more comfortable, and to be able to work more efficiently.
I have named this institution, in honor of my ever-to-be-remembered friend, Lewis Tappan, “Tappan Literary and Industrial School, Brooklyn, near Kaw Mendi, Small Boom River, Sherbro, W. A.,” to which place please direct my American Missionary paper for the future, and all communications.
COMMUNICATIONS.
CHRIST IN THE PERSON OF THE POOR.
Matt. xxv. 40.—“And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Me.”
Dedicated to the American Missionary Association.
O, the hearts, all crushed and bleeding,
Who can pass them by unheeding?
Who resist their piteous pleading?
When mine eyes the King shall see,
Shall the waiting welcome be,
“Ye have done it unto Me”?