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Identifier: spiritofmissions74epis (find matches)
Title: The Spirit of missions
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Episcopal Church. Board of Missions Episcopal Church. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Subjects: Episcopal Church Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Burlington, N.J. : J. L. Powell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ut their (111) 112 The Light of the Cane Brake toys and showing their little bags ofcandy when she had neither candy nortoy. The missionary stooped to speakto the hright-faced Cuhanta and in-quired her name. Lig*ht of the CaneBrake for Gods service and yours, shereplied. She had been taught her man-ners by a good father. The criollos, ornative Cubans, are very polite .and thebest of them teaoh their children thepolite phrases that are so pleasing to theear, even when they do not always comefrom the heart. This little girl has So Luz and her brother are always pres-ent when the fathers wages suffice forthe new shoes that the children arealwiays needing. After a while her father and herbrother-in-law began to attend the ser-vice iand soon joined the confirmationclass. The father, a veteran of two warsfor the independence of Cuba, hated theRoman Church because of its connectionwith the Spanish government, and hadnot allowed his eldest daughter to bebaptized; but after his confirmation he
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A CUBAN FAMILY AT HOME IN THE COUNTRY proven her sincerity by really workingfor God. The last bag of candy was handed toher and she was invited to come nextSunday to learn to sing with the otherchildren. She came, bringing herbrother with her, land they have con-tinued to come every Sunday, exceptwhen they have no shoes. Little Cubansnever go barefoot. Many a time we havebeen amused to see the little folksdressed only in shoes, their naked headsand bodies exposed to the burning raysof the tropic sun, but their little feet al-ways protected from the scorching hotstones by some kind of shoe or sandal. persuaded her to present herself for bap-tism in the Episcopal Church. She wasthe first Cuban baptized at the missionin Santiago. One by one they came until all theadult members of the little girls familyhave been confirmed and the youngestbaby, Juan Miguel, has been brought tothe font. The last one to come was the mother,kept away for a long time by the in-fluence of friends and neighbors

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