Edith H. Allen

Capitolo 27

Almost mean a mile from the field of Cottage of Medicine, on an increase of earth,
stands church a little Christian--simple but beautiful. From him you seem
to visibly flow those that purify and strengths that it redeems that they are destined
to transform the lives darkened of these Indian children of the great one
All-father.

You/he/she is prayer-meeting night. The bell is encircled and the public starts
to gather. A number of alarm, intelligent-looking, English-speaking
young men entered together.

One of these, a serious Cristiano will interpret, you condemn from
you condemn, the Sacred writings that he/she reads and the orator's communication.

Of the oldest men and women come following, heavy of characteristic and footstep. One
it is blind and touches his/her way to his/her accustomed place.

Old women is wound in covers, their faces sewed with toil
and showing the hardness of customs of pagan, when illness and death,
not assuaged by faith, hands the heart and wastes the body.

Mothers arrivals with children bright-dagli eyes folded up in their covers, or
principal children of various ransoms--also of the young women, beautiful
and intelligent--and some white employees from the Agency--and the
workers from the Mission--until the room you/he/she is almost filled.

The reunion has opened with prayer, and a fillings you calm the room as
all are brought in the a lot of presence of the loving Father.

And then it follows the to sing, her "My faith admires Thee,"
"Jesus is softly calling, lovingly, calling to me and you."
It ever made the words they seem so positions with wanting to say, so filled with
the covetous love of his/her/their Master?

The communication that follows is one of the impassioned seriousness as the
missionary tries to do clear to them the meaning of purity of
life--of the faith in God, of Your saving holding the power.

To his/her closing an Indian elder, using his/her his/her own soft language, Indian,
it begs in prayer for the presence of the Spirit Saint to conduct his
people.

Another increases and it says through the interpreter: "When I went away to