Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-12-22

poor and Indifferent to support them.
In April there were 81 900 children be-
tween 5 and 81 in the State. $4,000
of these are in my field | think not
more than one in eight or ten are reach
ed by S. S. or other religious instruction
For these people, in behalf of these chill
dren of Nebraska who are starving for
Bible instruction and dying without
knowledge of the Saviour, do | thank
you. May the Master accept your gift
as blended to the Lords poor" In the
third place l am at work for Noble
Society.
For 80 years these Sunday School
Missionaries have been at work, looking
for the waste places and carrying the
slight of the world to the dark spots
gathering the neglected children into
schools and aiding them in studying
the Bible; carrying the comfort of the
gospel to the sorrowing; visiting their
homes and there .'holding forth the word
of life giving its cheer and hope to
the Responding and everywhere trying
to ''speak word in season to him that
is weary All over our broad land
may be seen evidences of their work,
and thank God, also, may be found their
friends Even in Nebraska L find many
whose hearts have been kept tender by
the thoughts which the memory of the
Sunday School in the far-away home in
the east has brought to them and in
their hearts and with their lips they
cry God bless the American Sunday
School Union. In the name of this
great Society which | represent, do |
thank you for your gift. Again, I am
trying to do work for the Lord Jesus.
| realize more and more that 81 am slow
of speech and of a slow tongue" Again
and again | cry out 'Ah, Lord God be-
hold cannot speak for | am child, .
and yet the blessed Master helps me,
even me. He is showing me more than
ever before | knew about his own great
brave life, all its energies spent in doing
good, wandering homelessly over the
hills of Palestine, healing the sick, cur
ing the blind and deaf and the lame
raising the dead even, and all that he
might bring these people to himself
might save them from their sins anC
though now gone home to heaven him
self, he yet says to his followers, Il have
given you an example" and 1--WE know
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, tina
though he was rich yet for our sakes h,
became poor, that we through his power
ty might be made rich In his nam,
do thank you for the aid your gift
will be to his cause. May his own grac
be given you all, enabling you ever t.
be erich in good works. .
The Lord bless you and keep you
May he make all that you do prospe
in your hand. May his blessing be up
ON all that you have in the house ant
in the field.
/ didn't mean to make my letter quit
SO long. | hope you will not tire owe
it. | wanted to tell you of this work
my field-and to express to you m,
gratitude for your most generous aid
l want to accept it with that sort of re
fined courtesy with which he is ''to tn
manor born allows his servant to ad
dress him. | want you to accept it witt
the same tender friendship with which
it is sent, and let serve the more clesel,
to kint our hearts together in love.
want you to; accept with it the intens
sympathy, in all your joys and sorrow
of your brother who sends back to 20,
faults words to corinth, Eye are in m,
heart to live and die with YOU"
want you to accept with it my longin!
desire for the continued intercourse o
affliction which has characterized GU
mingling together in the past as '.fellov
workers unto the Kindom of God, ant
since my letter has got heads enough
for sermon. and is so nearly lon.
enough, | want now to add a text a
the wrong end, or rather join the tw,
ends with text, and so make it ser
mon without an end.
But | rejoice in the Lord great,
that now at the last, your care of M
. hath fourished again; wherein We wer
also careful, but ye lacked opportunity
not that | speak in respect Of want 70
| have learned in whatsoever state an
Herewith to be content Not becaus
l desire a gift; but desire fruit tina
may abound to our account. And thi
, l pray, that your love may abound We
more and more in knowledge and in al
judgement. That We may approve thing
that are excellent; that ye may be sin
!; cere and without offence till the day Q
Christ. Being filled with the fruits Q
righteousness which are by Jesus Chris
unto the glory and praise of God:
Sincerely Your Grateful Loving Brothe
IRENEus P. GAGE.