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and inside you find idols and chamis and ju-jus of 
all sorts. To them the people repair when they 
are in difficulty, trouble, or sorrow^ and there they 
offer sacrifice in kind and value, according to the 
boon they seek. I was greatly disturbed one day 
by an ear-piercing* scream of a man who was run- 
ning with his sick child over his shoulder along 
the path leading to one of these places. He went to 
ask Ju-ju to save his child from dying, and offered 
sacrifices in gin and other things to the value of 
one pound. Poor fellow ! When he came back^ 
he was disconsolate because he thought he had gone 
too late. His dead bov was in his arms. From 
these examples you can form some idea of what a 
very big step it is for a man or a town to break 
with Ju-ju. Yet that is happening all over our 
Nigerian mission field. A tall young Bende man 
surrendered a very powerful ju-ju — one which was 
his father's before him — to the Rev. F. W. Dodds, 
because he wanted to become a Christian. This Ju- 
ju was kept under lock and key, and consisted of a 
raised mound eighteen inches high, loaded with 
chains and trinkets and decorated with feathers. It 
was a tremendous sacrifice for a yo'ung man — -and 
a chief's son at that— to make. But Njoku was 
equal to the task. The head of another town went 
a step further even than Njoku, since he burnt all 
the Ju-jus first, and then sent to the Missionary 
telling him what he had do^ne, and begging for a 
Church in his town, saying, I want the Gospel to 
do in my town as it has done in other towns. '^ 
Thus through the overthrow of Ju-ju the day of 
deliverance for Afric's sons and daughters draws 
rapidly near. 
