HEROES ALL. 
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young man named Onye-Oghu. He is an out-and- 
out Christian in a part of Nigeria that is described 
as Heirs playground.'' Along with the other, 
members of his Church, he underwent awful per- 
secutions. Onye-Oghu was once tied up for days, 
then flogged and driven from the neighbourhood. 
The leaders of the persecution vowed they would 
murder him if he came back. So into exile he went 
to escape being killed. But he was not idle, his 
influence and efforts soon told for good, and he 
became the means of leading a bright young chief's 
son, Njoka, to become a Christian. When the 
Training Institute was first opened at Oron, I had 
a number of applications to enter. The one that 
stirred me most deeply was that of Daniel Effa's 
from Ibaka. He, along with a friend, had walked 
miles to apply for admission. I questioned him, 
and everything was satisfactory until I found he 
had not taken his widowed mother into confidence. 
I sent him back to' see her and talk it out with her. 
It appears that when she knew what was in his 
heart, she became very angry and used every means 
to get him to change his mind. It was all to no 
purpose, however. In a frenzy, little short of mad- 
ness surely, she ordered his body to be anointed as 
though he were a corpse, and then commanded the 
household to begin a period of mourning for her 
son Effa, who was dead to her for evermore. When 
he got away and reached us at Oron to settle down 
as a student at the Institute, I could tell he had 
had a roughish time. But when I heard all, I felt 
he had been through hell. Would you call him 
a hero or would you not? 
