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Title: Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec. 1898)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Subjects: Missions -- Periodicals
Publisher: Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work
Contributing Library: Presbyterian Historical Society
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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r to live. But daily, almost hourly, the rest *ofthe girls gathered together and prayed earnestlyfor their little friend, and God honored their faithby her sudden recovery. The father said : Wecould do nothing more for my child. God alone HELPFOR CUBANS.Mrs. Julia M. Ter-hune writes in the Sun-day School Times of thehome school for Span-ish-speaking girls whichhas been maintained forseveral years. Most ofthe twenty-two now inthe home are childrenof Cuban refugees, ofages from four to eigh-teen. They are mosttenderly cared for andtaught by two Christianwomen who are givingtheir lives to this work.The children bring withthem all the faults andfailings peculiar to neg-lected childhood ; butthe religious atmos-phere, the gentle firm-ness, and the faithfulteaching of the Biblesoon result in changedlives and habits. Allthe older girls are earn-est Christians and zeal-ous missionaries amongtheir own people. Thechildren have most im-plicit confidence inGods readiness to hearand answer prayer.
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T3 . a K. be -P s. C 1898.) MORMON TOUSG PIOPLEd SOCIETIES. 441 saved her life in answer to the prayers of thesegirls. I never heard before of such a religion, andI want it. Oh ! teach me. He speedily gavehimself to Christ, united with the church, and isliving a consistent life, working earnestly for thesalvation of his friends. This work has given to many young Christiansan opportunity for active effort. One young girlhad long been anxious to teach music gratuitouslyto some one who had not the advantages which hadbeen given her. She offered to give music les-sons to one of these Cuban girls, and speedily be-came so much interested in them all that she tookanother pupil, and another, until she had five.Other young ladies have one or more pupils also ;another teaches physical culture. A mission bandmade an entire outfit for one orphan girl. Anotherband took charge of the clothes of two little girls.A circle comes each week to teach sewiDg andplain dress making, closing the lesson with

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