The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-14

house has touched me more than any thing else in the way of giving. The native pastors seem to have such an aspiration for something better Of course you know they live on the floor; they have no furniture; he had desk, which was a great wonder; he had 0 chair; and then up in niche in the room there were five books, @ Bible and four other books; and then he seemed to feel that he was so well supplied; he had so much; and then there were two or three little photographs on the Wall of friends; and it would seem to be a step upward-so different from what saw in great many other houses. And Mrs, Sibley told me that the pastor has a salary of seventy dollars year; he supports his wife and three or four chill | dren and himself, of course. or that salary he always gives one-tenth to the Lord; and she says it is so hard for him to do 1t that he asks her when she pays him his salary to take out the tenth, never to let him have it at all, never to let it get into his possession. She says, "I urge him sometimes to take it and then give it back. He says, No, l am afraid I cant do it if l should; take 1t first and give me the rest
 And then I remember about he girls | in this school in Pao-ting-fu; just the Sunday before I got there had been communon Sunday, and Miss Merwin told me the way those girls lived; they lived on mush mostly; three times a week they have rice, and once week
 they have meat and vegetables; that is, morning and evening; at noon they
 have two biscuits for lunch. For
 whole year those girls have gone with out one biscuit to save the money, and
 She equivalent had been given to the church.; for a month before this Sun
 day they had gone without the rice, all the meat and vegetables, and had lived
 on mush for that month to have money
 to give They had given three cents
 week and from that money they had
 saved out long, long string of don't know how it is here, but l don't think
 there are many people in Boston who take out half their luncheon, who would
 go without definite articles on their table for the sake of giving to the
 Lord; and it is not necessary. But, my friends, all we want is few of the lux
 uries.
 A missionary told me not a great
 while ago that she had been away
 from the country six years and she
 came back and she was perfectly as
 founded at the increase of luxuries in
 the way of living during those six
 years. And so all we want is just a
 few luxuries, and we want those other
 women.
 And just one other instance Mir.
 Tracey told me about at Madura, He
 said he went one day to little village
 and he wandered into a house where
 there was an old woman; she sat down
 and talked with him a while, and after
 while the two were left alone; as
 soon as they were alone the old woman
 got up and she went over to a corner
 where there were six earthen pots
 stacked up and she took out a bundle
 of rags and she brought the rags and
 she undid them carefully one by one,
 and in the very depths of those rags
 was a very small gold bead. And she said that she had had string of gold
 beads when she was married, and one after another they had been taken for 'N'
 Lords work, and she had nothing else : to give; and now this was the very last one: and this she wanted to give for : the Lords work; and so MT. Tracey took it from her and he gave it to me; I have it at home; and it seems to me
 it is one of my precious possessions. . And after she had given 1t she and MT. , Tracey that cultivated, delightful gen , tleman and this poor ignorant old wo- man, knelt down side by side on the earth floor and they commended this gift to the Lord Jesus Christ and may We not feel that 1t was accepted as a
 precious gift to Him?
 } And may l say again, it isn't our board I plead for; not even for our . missionaries; but it is for the Lord } Jesus Christ who has done so much for } us; and He would do so much for all - those women in those lands if only they / could know And so may I ask your ; prayers, your sympathy, your love for ! these women?
 A paper (written by Miss Hopson) or the convent was read by Mrs. Cogswe1l
 after which prayer for our young ladies 3 was offered by Mrs. Goddard of Sails. 5 bury.
 Rev. Mir Roberts gave notice of ar | evening session, under the auspices o1 the Y. P. S c. E., to be held at 7:30. A cordial vote of thanks to all who . had contributed to the pleasure ant success of the day was passed. The Doxology was sung, and the E meeting was closed with the benedic : ton by Rev. MT. Roberts.
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