The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1916-04-22
STORY OF Fifteen CENTS
GIVEN FOR AFRICA'S UPLIFT
How Emily sanford's Mite Paved Way
For Great Missionary Work.


mission convention, held at Bryan,
Tex, during a visit Of the Rev. DIR. l.
G. Jordan, corresponding secretary Of
the national Baptist foreign mission
board, the work Of two cent stamp In
central Africa was related. After hear
ing the story the Rev. Mr.. Lttleton OF
Rockdale said in addressing the au-
dience that he wished to make state
ment and an offering.
In the course of his remarks the Rev.
Mr.. Lttleton said: 1.-TWO years ago
Mrs. Emily Sanford, member Of our
church, was taken very ill. While on
what proved to be her deathbed she
said to the members of her missionary
circle, Here is Ii cents; please use 1t
for Africa This Is cents has been
kept in the missionary box for two
years, and now want to give It to DR..
L. G. Jordan to use in the way he
thinks best"
DR.. Jordan accepted the Is cents
with thanks, but at the time did not
see to what use he could put 1t except
to deposit it in the common treasury.
But while en- route to headquarters he
visited Olivet Baptist church in Chi
cago and In sermon related the Incl
dent. At the close Of the service wo-
man came forward and asked If she
might use the Is cents to buy cloth
with which to make an apron, from the
sale Of which other aprons could be
made until an Emily Sanford fund"
could be started. She made the apron
and returned it to the church. Time
passed on, and the incident was seem
ingly forgotten.
A few months later DR.. Jordan re.
turned to Chicago, and by a mere CO.
incidence the apron came into his
hands. 1t was sold for missions al
auction in the Olivet church for 7t
cents. This amount was given to Mrs
jackson, the originator Of the idea, tc
make other aprons to be sold. This
was done until 81 was accumulated.
BY the aid Of Mrs. Jordan, So or s.
worth of aprons were made for another
trip to Texas. In October, 1913, Ell
route to Texas to attend the genera
Baptist convention at San Antonio, HI
lost all baggage, including the last YES
tige Of the emily Sanford" aprons
He told the story to the foreign mis-
sion board and asked that the hall IL
the proposed building for the schoo
organized at Grand Bassa, west coas
Of Africa, by Miss Susie M. Taylor b.
known as the EMILY Sanford hall"
On Wednesday night, Dec. Fl, 1915
DR.. Jordan spoke in Mount Gillart
Baptist church, Fort Worth, Tex, ant
again told Of the Emily Sanford fund
how it was started, how all was los
and how he gave up. At the close
the talk a note was passed to DR.. Jor
dan which contained 80 cents. TIL
note read: 81 am the granddaughter
Emily Sanford. I inclose 80 cents t
revive your apron project"
Providentially, as on a previous OF
casion, DR.. Jordan stopped in Chicag
en- route home and again related tn
story Of the Is cents, and to his sui
prise the originator Of the apron pre-
ject, a Mrs. Jackson, was in the aud
ence and again started to work on tn
apron matter. DR.. Jordan has request
ed that the women Of the various mis
sionary societies make 1000 aprons
the sale Of which will go to pay fo
the Emily Sanford hall at the Bib
Industrial academy at Grand Basss
west coast of Africa, Of which Mis-
Susie M. Taylor and Miss Eliza
Davis are principal and assistant pril
cipal, respectively.