COST OF LADY MISSIONARIES.
We sincerely hope that those who read the record of a Week’s Work by our lady missionaries will carefully consider the value of these labors, and the importance of the question as to their duty in aiding to supply the vast want that exists at the South for this kind of Christian service. It takes four hundred and fifty dollars to provide for a lady missionary for one year, including traveling expenses, board and a moderate salary.
Are there not some societies of ladies who will pledge us the amount needful, and by so doing have a missionary of their own in the field? Are there not individuals who will promise as much for the same purpose? We shall be most happy to answer inquiries relating to details.
The pastor at Hampton writes: “Every night for the last two weeks we have been having meetings for prayer, and the whole school has been deeply moved. Many have already confessed their love for Christ, and there are many now seeking Him. General Armstrong and all the teachers are thoroughly in earnest in the matter. The General made a most earnest appeal to the students last evening, in which he said that nothing like it had been known in the history of the school.”
We have received intelligence from Rev. D. K. Flickinger, D.D., who has made in Liverpool, London and Glasgow preliminary inquiries relating to the John Brown steamer. It was his purpose on reaching Sierra Leone to learn definitely as to the necessary capacity of the boat for the use of the mission. He hoped also to be able to conclude contract with the Governor of Sierra Leone for carrying mails and for doing other business which would be a source of income to the mission without interfering with its special work.
Rev. J. M. Hall writes from the Good Hope Station of a prosperous year’s work among the Mendi and Sherbro people. He says: “One year ago yesterday I took charge of the spiritual work at this station. We have had 48 eleven o’clock Sabbath services, 48 Sabbath night services, 40 Wednesday night services, 360 early morning six o’clock services, not including the class and children’s Friday afternoon services. I have received eight persons into the church, five on profession of faith in Christ, have baptized 25 children, and married one couple. I have traveled two thousand miles in search of medical treatment and in the interest of the mission, notwithstanding that I have been confined to my bed and room twenty-two times with this most dreadful fever. We trust that we shall by the grace of God be enabled to do more the next year if permitted to live. Our schools, both Sabbath and day, have been well attended. The work is certainly a great one and I like it more and more every day.”