Identifier: spiritofmissions74epis (find matches)
Title: The Spirit of missions
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Episcopal Church. Board of Missions Episcopal Church. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Subjects: Episcopal Church Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Burlington, N.J. : J. L. Powell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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intothe clearing, where the forest had fallenbefore money-making industry. Therewere logs and stumps in every direction;smoke here and there curled lazily up asif the fire did not care to be a partner inmaking away with the tall palms andstately seiba trees with orchids hangingon their limbs. There were many darknatives in the picture swinging the axewith skill and power, while a peculiarinterest came from many pairs of slow-moving oxen on the hillside yoked inSpanish fashion with the yoke boundfast to the hams. The estate covered5,000 acres, and there were also immensestretches of thrifty sugar cane. Thislooks from a distance a little like tallcorn, though of a somewhat lighter shadeof green, and without the tassels. Awork of cultivation was going on requir-ing men and mules in considerable num-bers, and a Scotchman was acting asoverseer. From long exposure in thetropics he was nearly as dark as one ofthe Indians, but of giant build, and ap-parently reserved and quiet. Like so (961)
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WHERE THE RAILWAY MEETS THE OCEAN many men in these countries, heseemed somewhat hardened and es-tranged from religious influences. Of all these things the missionary-thought on the slow river trip. Was heaccomplishing anything? Did it pay?Well, at any rate, whether it paid or not,he had agreed to go to the plantationevery month. He went on to an oil re-finery for the following Sunday, andthence to meet appointments at the ports,one on the Pacific and the other on theGulf. There is plenty of live interestthere where the railway meets the sea.A row of long-armed electric cranes re-volve high above the wharves; trainscome directly under them; and withgreat storehouses on one side and shipson the other, they carefully transfer allmanner of merchandise in either direc-tion. The missionary was two daysahead of his Sunday appointment at theport and was making use of this oppor-tunity to meet and know all the people.Who is this man at the hotel table?The missionary knew there must be,somewhe

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