The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-09-24
A New RissIonarY to CUBA.
From The Baptist Courier.


Two weeks ago read from the pull
pit at Bethel letter from DR.. Willing
ham earnestly urging contributions
for Foreign Missions and laying
stress upon the need of men and
women who will give themselves to
the work. I also made a missionary
talk in which | tried to impress upon
our people the Importance of the work
and the need of the prayers of all
Christians in the interest Of those who
are benighted in heather darkness or
overawed by the miseries of Cathol-
icism. A prayer was made in which
the Father was asked to set apart
some one in the congregation as a
missionary. The prayer was that
dav answered! Praise God! Miss
Sudie Furman, one of the most con-
secrated of all cur members, and who
has for several years been one OF the
leading lights in Bethel Church, a,
great-grand daughter of the illustrlous
Richard Furman the elder, that day
heard the call Of God to leave home
and friends and property and all the
sweet environments of her present life
and to enter the field as missionary
worker and answered, 81 will AS
TO how the call came, she told me to-
day; but that is her sacred possession.
There was clear, unmistakable call
for her to go to Cuba and work with
Miss Jennie Edwards, at Mariel. 1t
came after much prayer and spiritual
turmoil; and she responded with her
life. She will leave when she has dis
posed Of her property and home-the
old Furman homestead, at Prlvateer-
though it will probably be about Janu-
ary before she leaves. May God richly
bless her in her work.
Miss Furman is the teacher OF the
infant class as Bethel and is the super
intendent of the Home Department of
the Sunday School. In each of these
places her successor, equal In every
way, will indeed be hard to find. In
the general church work she will be
very greatly missed, and we are for
many reasons leath to give her up.
But the work Of the Master will go
so1; God will supply her place here
with some one else while she takes up
the work in another part of the vine
yard. For the greatest of all reasons
-lOI 1uS 5oh0 Ok onO Sc1oSS--HO Ga ca ~
glad that sheis to go. God never mis-
calls or errs. Our prayers will go with
her. She expects to take mp work at
the orphanage located at Mariel, Cuba,
where Miss Edwards has been for sew
5eral years laboring with great success
under God. Dr.. Diaz breaches at the
erphanage once a month. Mariel is
about forty miles west of Havana, on
the Gulf coast. The writer was locat-
ed not very far from this town for sew
eral months when a soldier in Cuba.
Now I wish I had visited the place.
While in Cuba / was impressed with
the needs Of the people the spiritual
needs impressing me particularly.
Since I returned to the States / have.
lectured twenty odd times at as many
places on the subject of Cuba and the
Cubans, and have always dwelt strong
" upon the moral an dspiritual degra-
dation Of the people; and now to think
of member Of my own church going
there to labor among those same peo-
pie is indeed cause for me to praise
God. Miss Furmau has heard that
lecture, but it was not that but the.
Spirit of God who called her into the
work. May God richly bless her is my
earnest prayer!
Louis j. Bristow.
Wedgeield, S. c., Sept. IL, 1902.