American messenger . rom your gloomy Past! Dawn followsnight— With faith and hope, the days have clearer light;For lost sweet dreams the heart may often ache,But upward look, and a brighter day will break. Haste from your evil Past. Alas, the shame—Live hence anew, retrieve a tarnished inner warfare for the good and true,And peace shall await you, and honor, too. Up from the troublous Past! Learn well the art,To hold Messiahs star above your tremblingheart; To harbor doubts and fears be not seek communion with the pitying Christ. Haste from your sorrowing Past! Those seve
American messenger . rom your gloomy Past! Dawn followsnight— With faith and hope, the days have clearer light;For lost sweet dreams the heart may often ache,But upward look, and a brighter day will break. Haste from your evil Past. Alas, the shame—Live hence anew, retrieve a tarnished inner warfare for the good and true,And peace shall await you, and honor, too. Up from the troublous Past! Learn well the art,To hold Messiahs star above your tremblingheart; To harbor doubts and fears be not seek communion with the pitying Christ. Haste from your sorrowing Past! Those severedties, Loved friends and kin, are safe yond farthestskies. Their lives and love shall with your memorystay, And oer your spirit like angel whispers play. Haste from your darkened put It! Your chartrevise, A new dawn will break, as a sweet the white way Divine leading secure,And the yean to come will be iweei and pure. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations 7 PRINTED PREACHERS. THE COLES-ACKERMAN MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL AT NELLORE, INDIA For the Telugus Printed preachers, in the form of Christianbooks and tracts in the vernacular have longbeen at work among the Telugu people in after year the American Tract Society hassent cash appropriations for the production anddistribution of Christian literature among theTelugu-speaking population until the grand totalof the remittances amounts to many thousandsof dollars. The American Baptist Foreign Mission So-ciety maintains an important mission among theTelugus in South India. Publication work hasbeen carried on at the station in Nellore, wherefor many years Dr. David Downie (now atCoonoor) was in charge of this importantbranch of activity. The educational work at Nellore is large andgrowing apace. The Coles-Ackerman MemorialHigh School for Boys, of which an excellent pic-ture appears on this page, is doing a splendidwork. The cornerstone of this building was laidin the year 1911. One ye
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