The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-04-18
Home Missionary Department

paths.
We as Home Missionaries should
have one hour each day set apart
for meditation and prayer, that we
may Be better prepared to work in
bis vineyard Much prayer is a
sure weapon against temptation
aud the many discouragements we
meet each day
We cannot all be missionaries to
foreign countries, but we can help
those who can 80, and in the mean
time be working at home.
DO we love our neighbors across
the ocean better than our neigh
bors Of the same sort across the
street, Can't we devote just an
hour or two each day ii getting in
touch with the needs and longings
Of some mother that is perhaps a
bread winner? There may be chill
dren III that home who would at
tend Sunday school if some kind
angel Of mercy would lend a helping
hand to the mother who has to toll
So hard for their support. Solicit
clothing if it be necessary, and
with but little trouble and self-de-
NAL on our part, garments could
be prepared that would gladden.
the hearts Of those little ones.
lii as much as ye have done it
unto one Of the least of these my
We have done it unto me.
Matt 25:4o.
Let us call in loudest tones to
the women who sit at ease, to rise
up and help lis to increase our
members, to pray and work for the
appearance Of dcaconess timber.
What urgent calls we have from
that department. We have only
nine TO meet the demand for one
God grant that among
The many noble young women in
our city that at least one will de-
vote her life 70 this cause. Help
us swell the numbers i'll our Home
Missionary Society. Go out and
bring them i'll, and, by swelling
our numbers you increase the Sun
day school and thus cheer and aid
the superintendent, for if mothers
are interested in home missions,
they will be Interested in all the
means Of grace i'll the church and
send their children to Sunday
scool. Let us join i'll a solid phal.
lmx Of attack against the indif-
ference Of parants in sending their
children to Sunday school.
When we are inviting them into
our society let us not be like the
little girl ! once knew. She lived
in a certain town and her Sunday
school teacher had requested all
HE members Of her class to try and
bring a new scholar to Sunday
school the following sabbath. tt
50 happened that new family
moved III next door to this little
girls home that week, aud there
we're two little girls in the family.
50 this little girl made their ac-
luaintance and invited them to
school in this wise; Do
fou attend Sunday school? They
-eplied that they did. Then she
lsked. Have you any silk
lresses'" They said that they
zach had one. Well, if you have
iilk dresses | would like to have
1ou so TO Sunday school with me
next Sunday.
Cod looketh not OH the outward !
appearance, but at the heart.
Let It's be honest, and square
,ur lives by the great model
Christ who did not even pass the
icarlet woman by. Shall we fol-
ow in his foot steps9
The delegates have returned |
rom the District Conference at
somanche and report a very inter-
sting and profitable meeting.
rhey report two auxiliaries in this
district, twelve new subscribers to
Our Home at one meeting.
collected seven dollars for Miss
3onnell who has just sailed as
missionary 70 Japan. The society
Il Comauche chose sides and in |
reased their membership from
ourteen 70 twenty-four The