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A DIFFERENT "WATCH NIGHT" MEETING.
Since the foregoing article was in type, we have received the following
sketch of a "Watch Night" meeting in one of the churches of our
Association.
It is quite a custom among the colored people to hold "Watch Night"
meetings. These meetings are largely attended and are full of fervor and
interest. Our "Watch-Night" was a very precious one--it was held from 10
to 12 o'clock: it was divided into four half-hour services, viz:
1--Prayer and praise; 2--Bible reading; 3--Address by pastor, and 4--A
testimony meeting. The last five minutes was spent in silent prayer, and
at 12 o'clock, when the New Year was announced by booming of cannon and
the ringing of bells throughout the city, we united in singing our song
of New Year greeting, "What a Happy New Year," while extending to one
another the right hand of fellowship. At the close of the service all
present pledged themselves, by standing, to abstain from the use of
intoxicating liquors as a beverage during 1890.
* * * * *
THE INDIANS.
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THE RAMONA SCHOOL.
BY DIST. SEC. J.E. ROY.
I had the pleasure, in Santa F�, January 13th, of attending an
entertainment given by the Ramona pupils in honor of Miss Platt, one of
their teachers. Gov. Prince and his wife, and several of the citizens,
were present as invited guests. After the singing of several songs, and
a statement made by Prof. Elmore Chase, the Principal, fourteen of the
scholars rendered, in the action of nature and the speaking of English,
Mrs. Bentley's dialogue, "The Old Year's Vision and the New Year's
Message," as found in the January number of _The Youth's Temperance
Banner_. One of the large boys first came in as an old man, clad in a
mantle and trembling on a staff, to repeat the "Old Year's Vision." Then
came in, one after another, a dozen boys and girls, to recite the
greeting of the several months. It was a temperance exhibit, and so each
one had a testimony for that cause. January, bearing a New Year's card
in hand, declared: "I've promised that not a drop of wine shall touch
these temperance lips of mine." February bore a fancy valentine, with an
appropriate motto. March lifted aloft a new kite, with "Kites may sail
far up in the sky, but on strong drink I'll never get high." July,
bearing a flag and a bunch of fire-crackers, declares:
"I tell you I mean to celebrate, with something that won't intoxicate:"
while December resolves: "No brandy fumes in my Christmas pie; no
wine-sauce in my pudding, say I."
Then comes in a beautiful maiden, clad in white and crowned with
flowers, to be greeted by a chorus of voices: "The king is dead; long
live the queen!" and then to recite the "Message of the New Year."
Then comes another song in English, and then the second unloading of the
Christmas tree, which has kept its place in the chapel since its proper
day of Christmas cheer. Then the whole occasion is honored by an address
from the Governor, in simple words, with smiling face and transparent
good feeling. It is not every children's holiday that has a Governor at
hand to grace the occasion. As the President of the Board of Trustees
which, under the A.M.A. fosters the Ramona, and as Governor of a
territory which has nineteen Pueblo villages and the reservations of the
Navajoes and the Mescalero and Jicarilla Apaches, he is a faithful
friend of the Indians. This is apparent from his first report just made
to the Secretary of the Interior. The 21,000 of the Navajoes he reports
as possessing 250,000 horses, 500 mules, 1,000 burros, 5,000 cattle,
700,000 sheep and 200,000 goats. Their wool-clip the last year reached
2,100,000 pounds. Here is a grand field for a mission.
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THE CHINESE.
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