Title: American messenger
Year: 1843 (1840s)
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Subjects: American Tract Society Christianity
Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : American Tract Society
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ing and study ofthe Bible. While at his work he alwayshad his Bible on a bench nearby, andwould read and ponder passage afterpassage. He began to tell his fellow-laborersabout Jesus and exhorted them to fol-low Him. He was persecuted but con-tinued faithful in the service of hisLord. I baptized him, and when othersbecame lukewarm, Pedro was faithfulat the services and persistent in urgingothers to become Christians. The men with whom he worked,fanatical and intolerant, often madelight of him for being a heretic, buthe knew how to endure hardness as agood soldier of Jesus Christ. One daythese fanatics were speaking slightinglyof him and his religion, when the bosscame in. He reproved them for theirunkind words, and invited Pedro tostand up and tell them all what he be-lieved and why. This simple servantof the Lord was equal to the occasion,and breathing out a prayer to God forhelp, he took his Bible in his hand andpreached unto them Jesus. When hehad finished the boss asked any present

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PLOUGHING A GARDEN IN HAINAN, CHINA An Encouraging Item FromMexico Miss Kyser, of the Girls School ofthe Womans Foreign Missionary So-ciety, at Pachuca, Mexico, tells of theexceptional interest in her school work.The second term began with more thanfour hundred and fifty scholars. Mostof the rooms were over-crowded. Shesays: One teacher has two grades.There are desks in her rom for forty,and there are now sixty-five in theroom. A lady came the other day witha child for that room, and I wasashamed to ask the teacher to crowdin another. I told the mother therewas no room for the child, and she saidshe would send a chair; and then I hadto tell her there was no room for thechair. «* * A True Soldier of Christ Rev. J. E. Davis, of Leon, Mexico,tells of a true soldier of Jesus Christin these words: Pedro Abarca, is his name. He is apoor Mexican shoemaker, yet he loveshis Lord and sets an apostolic examplebefore his brethren. I first met him about ten years ago.He moved to Leon, Mexico, whe

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