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These numerous initials form the shortest mode of designating an interesting, if not
unique, meeting I had the pleasure of attending yesterday, in the Congregational
Church at Amesbury, Mass., Rev. Pliny S. Boyd, pastor.
They stand for Sabbath-school and Missionary Monthly Concert; the plan being
to let the scholars do the reporting and the singing, with prayers from several
teachers, and remarks from the superintendent, pastor and a visiting brother.
The triple work of the American Missionary Association was assigned for
this[228] occasion; and it was encouraging for the future of benevolent effort in the
church, to see how promptly class after class repeated the answers allotted them.
Each will probably remember through life his or her part in the programme; and,
from the whole, a very clear outline was furnished to the assembly of the numbers,
needs, and capabilities of the Indians, Mongolians and Negroes within our borders.
I was happy to be able to confirm and illustrate some of those statements, and to
urge upon that intelligent church, and the flourishing Sabbath-school, from which
seventy were received into communion last year, the pressing, may we not say
paramount? importance of that department of missionary effort.
If the four millions are suffered to live in vice and ignorance, and the superstition
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