Eight boys in a Sunday-school class in one of our churches,
following the suggestion of their teacher, decided to send
Christmas remembrances to eight boys in a mission church in
the far Northwest. They set aside five cents each week for
seven weeks and purchased knives of much greater value than
thirty-five cents each, through the kindness of the merchant
who was informed of their purpose. Each boy wrote a personal
letter to the boy who was to receive his gift. The eight
knives went on their way before Christmas to the care of the
minister of the mission, who wisely required his eight boys to
write personal letters acknowledging their gifts and telling
something about themselves, before they received the knives. So
eight choir-boys, close up to the Canada line in the Northwest,
received these Christmas gifts. The letters received here were
said to have interfered for a Sunday or two with the regular
lessons. With their accounts of hunting rabbits, etc., they
made Newark boys feel that all the advantages of life are not
found in New Jersey. The plan here described was suggested
incidentally by the work of the Church Periodical Club, which
has done a great deal to brighten the lives of our missionaries
and their people.--The Newark (N. J.) _Churchman_.
(282)
=Boy’s Religion=--See EARLY RELIGION.
=Boy’s Trust in Father=--See CONFIDENCE.