REV. JOHN ENANG GILL. 
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dying. Besides, what should they sing?*' But 
John persisted, and offered to tell Ma what they 
sang. And when Ma confessed her desire to know, 
he answered triumphantly, Rescue the perishing, 
care for the dying." When he returned to' his 
native land he craved permission to add to 
his own name of John Enang the name of 
his benefactor and spiritual father. Rev. C. F. 
Gill. This being given, it is not too much 
tO' say that the name has suffered nothing 
at his hands. He has adorned it, even as 
it has served him.. Once back at Arsibong Town, 
it was not long before he publicly confessed Christ 
at a baptism service, and became a teaching evan- 
' gelist. During this period he was subjected to 
pressure from enterprising young natives to join 
the Government service and treble his income. But 
he flatly and steadfastly refused ; the work of God 
amongst his own countrymen he held to be of far 
greater importance than a big salary. The Rev. 
W. Glover, during his term at Jamestown, had the 
following remarkable experience concerning him. 
A Mr. Peter Davis was the teacher in charge of one 
of the out-stations called Ikot Ntika. He was 
granted a furlough to go home and get married. 
Mr. Glover decided that John should fill the tem- 
porary vacancy, but when he and his friends took 
his things down to the canoe preparatory to depar- 
ture, the women of the town refused to allow the 
canoe to be loaded, for they said the town could 
not spare him. The men joined in the protest, and 
sent a deputation to tell Mr. Glover they could not 
agree to his transference elsewhere, for John * ^hum- 
bugged them too much " when they did bad 
