The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-04
SEVENTIETH ANNIVERSARY
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 brought into that house, had lived all
 her life there, married at fifteen, had
 two children, the oldest six years old
 She had never been to a Sunday school
 in her life, neither had the boy, and in
 deed he did not know what a Sunday
 school meant. There were few chairs,
 but they had boxes and we took rails
 from an adjacent fence, and they made
 fine seats. A congregation could not
 go to sleep, no matter how dull the
 preacher happened to be. gave out
 hymn books and we prepared to sing.
 choosing for our song, What Friend
 We Have in Jesus" Just at the last
 minute the boy brought his high stool,
 placed it in the center of the room,
 climbed upon it, sitting upright and
 waiting His mother said, What are
 you going to do there?" "Oh," he an- ; swered, I'm going to see what he
 does He evidently expected some
 sleight of hand performance, and was
 going to see it all. We began to sing,
 hut had not finished the first line before
 he climbed off his stool tears running
 down his face and yelling at the top of
 his voice, ran from the room and took refuge in the barn with his grandpa, nor would he return. I have heard of some audiences hanging on the speak
 CTS lips, but this part of mine did not;
 he hung over the barn fence, and stay ed there all the morning. There were other children, mostly grown up, who that day gathered at their first Sunday school in their lives. One girl came eleven miles to her first school, and she
 weighed ITO pounds, though not quite fourteen years old.
 We now have two grand schools in these places, and lately Y. P. s. c. B. has been started. I have in my field 10S just such places, where until we came
 with our Sunday school there was no work for God. There are 10S bright { places where until now there has not been a single ray of light,
 Another experience. A small school started in school house, later a preaching service I invited any one s who was willing to let me speak with | them the words of eternal life to come to my boarding place any time when
 convenient Next day a knock at my door, and thirteen children between the r ages of eleven and fourteen years, en- LeISu- l tohSu hifi NO No4N' they had come to see the lady of the Hhouse, but one said, we did not come Isto see her, but to see you. You said at Emeeting last night that if anybody fwould like to hear you say words they |scould come here, and we have come" |sSurely God sent the children. l talked land prayed with them and then let them Ego home. That night the school house IAwas crowded with people; fathers. IAnothers, older brothers and sisters, kgracious work begun, and twenty-seyen . .Mere converted during the meetings. We organized Congregational church 1 sf twenty and later seventeen more con- fessed Christ and united, and eighteen snonths after that small beginning with . lhe children's prayer meeting the home | missionary people sent pastor and the . ehureh building was being put up, and to-day we have a fine church of some | fifty members, and sixty in Sunday school, and two out-stations connected | with this pastors work.
 Our work pays, and it abides- Grand Opportunities are open before us in Ore
 gon. Last year asked for $500 extra