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Excerpt from Fifteenth Annual Report of the Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South: Including Minutes of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Woman's Board of Missions, Held in Kansas City, Mo;, For 1892-93
In the midst of a typhus-smitten city, where schools were being closed and infected houses were marked by a large red circle painted on the outside, our noble women were warned to be ready to leave the city. The reply was: Our schools have suffered, and will be hurt much more, but we had not thought of our safety, only of the work.
Another, devoted to work among women, says: On all Sides they are reaching out, and seeking for the true knowledge of God. How their weary, hungry faces distress me One Sunday after noon, at our Woman's Missionary Band, a poor woman came more than a mile on crutches. A dear Old sister said: 'when I was a Roman Catholic I had plenty of money, but Since being converted and becoming a Protestant I have lost it all. My people think this came upon me because I was not faithful to the Catholic Church; but I tell them that I would rather have the peace of God in my heart than all the wealth in the world. He makes me happy without it.' The missionary continues: One afternoon I was not able to go to Sunday school. Monday morning five of the pupils came to me and inquired why, and to recite their verses and get cards that they might learn new verses for next Sunday. These were not all chil dren; one was a mother and one a grandmother. I wonder how many at home feel such love for their Sunday schools?
One whose work had been chiefly among the boys, writes: One of our converted boys had to leave school because of his health, and sadly said: 'o I want to do something for the religion I love; I want to be a priest, but I can't.' I asked him if his new faith hin dered the old? He quickly answered: 0 no I want to be a Meth odist priest, but I can't be well enough to go to school.' He went to his home in the mining district of Zacatecas, and has sent back for Bibles and hymn books. So the leaven is working
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