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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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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ed yearsold, are class-mates—along with wrinkled grandmothers and motherswith babies straddled on their hips. Utterly alone, Miss Coope has brought the sweetness of home-lifeand civilization to this isolated tribe. Can you imagine 800 untutoredIndians—and ten liquor-huts? Under their thatched roofs rum workedits havoc until her patient, ceaseless labors bore fruit. An Indian canoe, sailing for days across a stormy ocean, was hermeans of communication with the mainland of Central America. Send for this new book: ANNA COOPE: Sky Pilot of the San BiasIndians. It will give you hours of delight and a rich fund of informa-tion. It is a rare addition to your library. 180 pages and beautifulphotographs of native life. Cloth, 5x7^. By mail $1.30. American Tract Society, Park Ave. and 40th St., New York: Enclosed please find $1.30 for which send me one copy of ANNACOOPE: SKY PILOT OF THE SAN BLAS INDIANS, as adver-tised in the November American Messenger. Name Street. Name Stre< I I Town
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178 American Messenger. December, 1918. The Pocket Testament LeagueMilitary Campaign BY GEORGE T. B. DAVIS. We have just completed a tour of themilitary camps in Texas and the ad-joining states. Whether we have spokento men from Kansas or Arkansas, fromMissouri or Louisiana, from Michiganor Wisconsin, from Illinois or Okla-oma or Texas, there has been the sameeagerness to possess and read and carrythe beautiful Testaments presented bythe Pocket Testament League; and thesame heart-hunger for the old timeGospel. They do not want any gospel ofEthical Culture, or of New Thought,but how hungrily they drink in the mes-sage when the old, old story of salva-tion through the blood of the Lamb isproclaimed! To say that we have had wonderfultimes is to put it mildly. As was tohave been expected from the conditionsunder which the men were assembled,the audiences have been composed ofmen of all types, rich and poor, educatedand ignorant, Roman and EasternCatholics, Protestants, Jews, ChristianScie

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