God first : or, Hester Needham's work in Sumatra : her letters and diaries

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God first : or, Hester Needham's work in Sumatra : her letters and diaries. day long. It is a delightful arrangement for bothparties, as he is a true-hearted worker and preacher, andwas a great help to me this morning in the church roomwith the women, sitting by my side, and starting thehymns, and taking the first prayer. An old man called the other day, and would not go awayuntil he had seen his mother to wish her Good-bye— meaning me! and whena woman speaks to herchild, she calls him dearfather or grandfather! Jan. 12.—For threeevenings I have seenjust such a spider asthis in my bedroom. God first : or, Hester Needham's work in Sumatra : her letters and diaries. day long. It is a delightful arrangement for bothparties, as he is a true-hearted worker and preacher, andwas a great help to me this morning in the church roomwith the women, sitting by my side, and starting thehymns, and taking the first prayer. An old man called the other day, and would not go awayuntil he had seen his mother to wish her Good-bye— meaning me! and whena woman speaks to herchild, she calls him dearfather or grandfather! Jan. 12.—For threeevenings I have seenjust such a spider asthis in my bedroom, butcould never succeed inputting him to death, ashe ran so fast, and nowI hear he is to be cherished, and not murdered, as he issupposed to eat up insects still more venomous than himself.It is very nice to be among a primitive people with veryfew wants. For instance, it would be difficult to find asuitable present for the brown dot of a servant girl. Shedoes not wear stockings or shoes or collar or hat or gloves, and she cannot write, and she already has a workbox, and. Draicn from memory, not from life, nor, alas, from death. ACTIVE WORK 43 her bed is a mat laid on the floor, and she sits on the floorin this room while we sit at the table. Jan. 19.—Last Wednesday was my second meeting of themothers of the students, and most unexpectedly to myself, Mr. Johannsen and about twenty of the students were alsopresent, and I can only thank God that He enabled me tospeak before them all. As every one here has a rice field, I took the subject of rice in its four stages: 1st, with thehusk; 2nd, after the husk is loosened by pounding; 3rd, after the husk is winnowed away; and 4th, after it is cooked.And Mr. Johannsen most kindly let me have a grindingblock and a fan to make an object lesson of it, and alsosome cooked rice ; and a man went through the wholeprocess there and then to show me, and to arrest the atten-tion of the women. Then I spoke to them of 1st, man inhis sinful state (. © Reading Room 2020

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