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Show €r•' THE MISSION ESTABLISHMENT AT OORFA The Shattuck School for the Blind here teaches reading and writing English, Armenian, and Turkish Braille ; chair caning, reed mat weaving, knitting, and sewing. The industrial institute does good work in carpentry, cabinet, iron, machine, tailor, and shoe shops. 1,200 women are employed in lace making. An orphanage is maintained redeemed; the seed which the sower scatters springeth up, " he knoweth not how." "He that loseth his life shall save it," said One who after that laid down his own life. The way of the Kingdom's coming is now as it has always been by the path of sacrifice even unto death. A SAMPLE SUNDAY IN AHMEDNAGAR BY ROBERT A. HUME, D.D. THE churches of the Marathi Mission have of late had comparatively few additions to membership. The evangelistic spirit is rising, however, and there are signs that an improvement is coming. I want to send you a brief story of some of the known ways in which Christian service was rendered or meetings held in Ahmednagar on one recent Sunday, that of September 12. On that day eighty-one persons entered into covenant with First Church, Ahmednagar, viz., five men, five women, twenty-eight boys, and forty-three girls. Of these, one woman and two men came by recommendation from other churches; a large number consisted of young people who had been baptized in childhood; seventeen were baptized at this time, and may be considered to a considerable extent a gain from the non-Christian community. To each of these eighty-one new covenant members the church gave a New Testament; to thirty-two persons English and to forty-nine persons Marathi copies. It was an impressive and glad occasion. In the offertory there were 447 gifts of different sorts, indicating that probably there were nearly as many donors. That is a large number of givers for a single service. 19 |