The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-04-28

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WHAT A CHILD MAY Do.--4-oGe tAM
half q century ago, girl of thirteen
in quiet country town of old Con
necticut was led to Jesus. Her par
ents were not protested believers
They followed her, or came with hel
to the Saviour's fold. Then she went
diligently to work for the Master
whose service she had entered.
A few weeks later she visited with
young lady companion, the city OF
New York, and there became interest
ed in the newly opened Sunday School
of DIVE Bethune and Katy Ferguson.
Nothing of the kind had been known
in her Connecticut home, and she de-
termined to introduce there the plan
she found working so nicely among
the poor of the city.
On her return, with few helpers,
she commenced a Sunday School for
the long-neglected little ones OF ire
ligious households in her community.
But the enterprise being a novelty
was naturally deemed by many OBJ
jectionable, for there are not few
who think that anything new is neces-
sarily evil, and that all innovations
should be frowned upon. Her good
pastor viewed the new school with
suspicion, and declined for this reason
to pray for it's success, and even good
people were in some instances out
spoken in its denunciation. For
time it was held in the
school house, then it was excluded
from that. 1t met in the court house
and in the hall of q tavern, and thus
in one place and another as it could
find even temporary shelter. 1t re-
quired moral courage and reliant faith
to keep on in the prosecution of such a
work under so trying circumstances !;
but God gave his dear children
strength according to their day, and
they preserved in their mission of love
in his holy name. Gradually the
school grew in favor with man, as it
gave evidence of bearing the approval
of God. The good pastor saw its
workings and yielded to it his sanction
and confidence. At length it was ia
ken home to the church, and has since
been held there as a precious inheri-
lance of the saints to be handed down
to succeeding generations.
And now, few weeks since, the
semi centennial of that school was
celebrated in it's Connecticut home.
The church pastor, well-known doc
tor of divinity, delivered commemo-
rative historical discourse, and minis
ters and laymen from different denomi-
and from distant portions of
the land, came together to do honor to
the memory of the founders of the
school, and to give God praise for
what he had wrought through their
humble agency. None sheer now at
5he work of the young girl and her
,o-laborers in first gathering neglected
little ones to tell them of Jesus; none
now object to the enterprise as an I'M
5ried novelty likely to break in iDju-
,iously on the old time routine; but
Ill agree that the work of the child
was Gods work. She came to Jesus.
Her parents came also. Her broth
ers and sisters all followed. She
iounded the Sunday School in
he community. She devoted her
ife to the work Of foreign
as the wife Of Rev. DR.. Ny
on Winslow, of India Three sisters
iollowcd her into the missionary field.
One Of her brothers prepared for the
ministry, and died just as he was en-
ering it. Another brother was an eff
,ient gospel minister, who in three
years from the time she opened the
sunday School in Connecticut, could
.eport another Sunday School of one
hundred scholars, and church of
members as organized in
ohio through the impulse given by
Ter enterprise. And among other items
mentioned of the half century history
# the Connecticut Sunday School, it
nay be shown that twenty-six minis
ers of Christ, of different denomina-
ions have been scholars or teachers
here. 1t is surely with force and per-
inency that the good pastor asked in
lis historical discourse: care there
ny who can still speak disparagingly
f the conversion Of children, or of
abors which look to this end, when
ne of the founders of this school, in
er own history, furnishes such an il
Of what one child may ac-
omplish who enters the vineyard p