I venture to throw out these hints as indicating the principle on which our Chinese mission is conducted; and now I wish to testify, after so many years, that if it were possible to begin again, we could choose no other one than that, the underlying principle of the “Congregational way.”
GOLDEN WEDDING GIFTS.
From our Treasurer’s correspondence this month, we copy the two following items:
“We send you the accompanying draft. It is our Golden Wedding gift, April 1, 1879, which is the fiftieth anniversary of our married life. We want you to use it for the Christian and educational elevation of the poor Freedmen as you think best. We talked the subject over, and concluded to make you this gift in behalf of them, instead of making a fashionable golden wedding party for the entertainment of our fifty-year-old friends or our own personal benefit. With it you shall have our daily prayers for the ultimate success of so worthy a cause.”
“Enclosed please find my check for $——, donation of my “Lady Friends” at my Golden Wedding.”
RECEIPTS
FOR APRIL, 1879.