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Title: The one hundredth anniversary of the Haystack prayer meeting celebrated at the ninety-seventh annual meeting of the American board in North Adams and by the Haystack centennial meetings at Williamstown, Mass
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: American board of commissioners for foreign missions. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: Boston, American board of commissioners for foreign missions
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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in Torringford of a young Yale graduate, Samuel J. Mills,who became pastor of the church there, and served as such formore than sixty years. Soon after his arrival in Torringford theyoung preacher found a wife in Esther Robbins, a beautiful youngwoman of a neighboring town, and of the seven children born tothem one was Samuel J. Mills, Jr., later the student of haystackfame. The speaker then followed Mills through his boyhood, speakingof his dedication to the missionary cause by his mother and of herwords, Oh, how little did I know what it was going to cost,when she received the letter informing her that he had decided toenter the foreign field. His father, Mr. Richards said, when hisson told him of his intention to enter the missionary work was ata loss to know what reply to make, but finally summoned togetherseveral friends and asked their counsel and prayer. And thestory has been handed down, though Mr. Richards could notvouch for its authenticity, that one brother began his prayer
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THE HERO OF THE HAYSTACK. 215 something like .this: 0 Father! Brother Mills has dedicatedhis son to foreign missions and now he is mad because he wantsto go. The life of the son in academy and college, the prayer meetingsabout the college campus, and the haystack meeting, when thefive young men sought shelter from the storm under a haystackin Sloane meadow, and while the lightning flashed and thunderroared pledged themselves to foreign missions, followed by aprayer of which missions was the subject, were told, with interest-ing illustrations, including pictures of three of the men at the hay-stack meeting, the old college campus, and Mission Park. Thencame the organization of the Brethren, which was continued inAndover Theological Seminary, where Mills went after leavingWilliams, and, finally, the meeting of the fathers in the TabernacleChurch, in Salem, where the first five missionaries were ordained.A good picture was shown of this service, with the fathers per-forming the ordinatio

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