THE OLD AND THE NEW. 69 
gregation gather about him and congratulate him 
and wish him God's richest blessing. That over, 
they form a triumphal procession and sing him 
round the town — every part of it — and then sing in 
the compound by the door of his room ; one of the 
leaders offers prayer commending the new beginner 
to Jesus that he may run the race with patience, 
looking unto Him, and he is left to enjoy the 
wo'nder and thrill and gracious meaning of it all ! 
Not many years ago the old order of things was 
much the oftener in evidence; to-day the new and 
better order carries the palm. Christian proces- 
sions are outnumbering Egbo displays. And, 
please God, a day shall come when Egbo, Ju-ju, and 
all that is kindred to them, shall be sent to the 
limbo of a dark and dreary past. 
