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meet in their respective rooms, and I attend each one for a part of the service. These meetings are conducted the same as our Christian Endeavor Societies. We have testimony and prayer, and the leader is always one of their own number. After dinner, the Senior Y. W. C. A. meeting is held. I have just started the work in the Y. M. C. A., and already the boys are taking a great interest in the meetings,1 each being preceded by a prayer circle. They are well attended, and the boys and girls are always willing to take part in prayer and testimony and I am sure God is- going to bless the service for Him. At 3 o’clock on Sunday we, have our gen eral chapel service, at which one of the ministers from Riverside presides and delivers the sermon. April 8 was set apart as Decision Day, when thirty-seven of the boys, and girls publicly made known their desire to accept Christ ,as their Saviour. The second Sun day following, after I had jdealt personally with each one of those who expressed a desire to become Christians, they confessed Christ in baptism, and became members of the Church. Each of those so confessing Him was presented with a leather-bound Bible, in which I inserted that excellent tract written by Dr. Torrey, “How to begin the Christian Life.” Many of them; had never seen a Bible before they came to Sherman, and it is a precious sight to see groups of girls sitting on the lawn reading the Book which is able to build up Chris tian character (Acts 20:32). In the Y. W. C. A. service, preceding the baptismal service, sotne of the girls stood up and with tears in their eyes told their companions of their new found Saviour and Friend, begging of them to make Him their own personal Saviour. I thank God for the blessed privilege of laboring together with Him for these Indian boys and girls. Pray for this work. The magnitude of it cannot be estimated, for as these children become Christians and go home, they in .turn become missionaries to their own people,- and many times bear persecution for the sake of the Gospel.
economy and nursing, while the bpys are taught the: different branches of manual training. The ministers of Riverside felt that some Christian work should be done among the Protestant boys and girls at the Institute, and in 1904 the Church Federation appointed, and has since supported a mis sionary at the Institute, whose business it is to look after the spiritual welfare of the Protestant boys and girls living there. Since the work was started 836 boys and girls have become Christians. In December, 1916, I was asked by the Church Federation to take the position of Protestant Missionary to the Indian boys and girls at Sherman, and feeling it to be God’s place for me at this time, I accepted, and commenced my work January 1,1917. I thank Him for the privilege of service and am enjoying, the work immensely. I am at the Institute four afternoons each week, seeking opportunities for per sonal work, also visiting the hospital and taking magazines and flowers to those who are sick, not forgetting to speak a good word for our Lord; also distributing tracts as the Lord directs. On Thursday night of each week eight Bible classes are held—five for the girls and three for the boys. I am teaching the class of older girls, numbering fifty, and God has been pleased to give to the work a corps of consecrated workers, who give their ser vices voluntarily, each one of them standing true to the' fundamentals of the Word of God, and boldly proclaiming them. Sunday is the busiest and happiest day of the week. At 10 o’clock all of the Protes tant hoys and girls meet in the chapel for brief Sunday-school exercises, and are then dismissed to go to their respective classes, of which there are nine.' I teach the class of older boys, and have about 100 in attend ance each Sunday. They are very orderly and attentive, and as God helps me to give out the truth, I know that the Living Word is working in their lives. Immediately after Sunday-school the Junior Y. W. C. A. and the Y. M. C. A.
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