LIBERIA
Letter from Student of the Liberia High School — Day 's Hope
DAY’S HOPE, May 29"', 1859
Rev. A. M. Poindexter:
VERY DEAR FRIEND AND BROTHER -- These lines come from us students of Day’s
Hope Academy, with feelings of gratitude, from the blessed hope we have in Christ, God has
always worked by means to the accomplishment of the designs of heaven. This we have
witnessed with great joy and unspeakable comfort to our hearts. When we first entered at this
place it was to obtain our education, beyond that we did not look. Through the aid of your
mission, and the spiritual instruction given at this establishment, before and since the death of the
lamented one, [brother Day,] we are, we trust, the subjects of God’s divine grace. To remain
still, without expressing to you the feeling sense of our hearts, would manifest more
ungratefulness than we wish to be guilty of.
It is hoped that your mission, thus established, may continue successful to others, as it has
been with our case, as we are brought nigh by the blood of the Saviour; sitting, we trust, at his
feet, clothed, and in our right minds. We are living in hopes of being useful in this region of
darkness to the many thousands who are in darkness. Our desire is, that the blessed Lord will
make us thus useful, as it is our object now, since he has done so much for us as to convert us
from the errors of our ways, to be the instruments to effect the salvation of those for whom the
blessed Saviour spilt his precious blood to save.
You will please excuse us for intruding ourselves upon your time and attention.
With profound regard, we subscribe ourselves, yours, in the bonds of Christian affection
and high esteem,
Your humble servants,
ANTHONY GIBSON,
NATH’L RICHARDSON
The Commission
January 1860
p. 213
