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out Christians, they get married Christian 
fashion/' and found a home on Christian lines. 
This means that the woman's position is entirely 
altered. I always think with pleasure of one of our 
church officials getting married. They chose each 
other because they genuinely liked each other, and 
after they were married I used to like to pay calls 
on them fairly often just to watch the process of 
husband and wife falling deeply in love with each 
other. It was a source of delight to me because I 
recognised it as one of the convincing manifesta- 
tions of the power of Christ's Gospel to bless. 
Can you really believe that when the people of 
that same town first saw the missionary and his 
wife walk out together side by side, and maybe arm 
in arm, they are dumbfounded? From that state 
of mind to the home conditions of that church 
official was a big leap, was it not ? It all lies just 
here. Christ's power in the hearts of men and women 
changes houses into homes, and lifts wives who 
would otherwise be drudges and practically slaves 
to the level of equals, and eventually makes them 
angels of the home," just as Florence Nightin- 
gale was the angel of the lamp." I have not seen 
it, but I'm given to understand that the home-life 
of the Rev. John Enang Gill (our first native 
ordained minister) and his wife Mary, with their 
bonny bairns, is the most delightful sight to* be 
found on the banks of the Mbo River. To John, 
Mary is indeed and manifestly the /'angel of the 
home." And with all my heart I say, Thank 
God for it." 
