Edith H. Allen
Capitolo 83
an old dirty room, in is precarious a part of the most disreputable angle,
of the city.
There was not an Italian Protestant or sympathizer, till now as him
you/he/she could discover, in the community and there it seemed to be the greatest
the apathy to the Mission from the old aristocratic church of
the city.
Many blocks away a new and excellent brick church went in process of
construction, to be used for Italian Catholics. Really the perspective
you/he/she was not encouraging for the Protestant Mission.
However, generations of those that bear and they overcome had written
deep inside him an infallible courage and a faith that it conquers.
He started to cultivate Italian in their shops, on the roads in
their houses, wherever he was able. Its charm and the sincerity opened the
way and it won the true friends. In his/her discussions with them him found
those that were doubting the authority of their first faith; it
seemed out of the harmony in this new earth, and they was turning from
it to the unbelief.
Here is the opportunity for him of offrirloro the new faith
and what said "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life", and
he irresistibly did him/it.
The history that follows is of absorbent interest, but we am only able
touch him/it in contour and record-as the groups of converts they connected
the shepherd in to mend, painting, electric illumination of the
building, until it became really inviting.
As there it came to be a library with books in English and Italian,
and evening classifies, and reunions and healthy funs to
competes with the rooms of dance and cafe for the young people.
There were to lectures of stereopticon of times on things historical and
civic, and dramatic presentations of the Prodigal Child and other
Histories of Bible that the prepared same shepherd and he/she trained the
people to introduce.
As a marvelous Domenica-school grew and burnt with happiness and
enthusiasm, even if threatening priests pressed in sometimes
ordering out his/her children and shaking fists excited in the faces