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The rainy season is now nearly past, and we 
have had a wet and unhealthy time. Both Mrs. 
Blllheimer and myself have sulFered much within 
the five months. I was kept indoors for weeks 
together, and for nearly five weeks I was unable to 
have family worship. Mrs. Billheimer was not 
out of the house for three months. Mr. Williams 
was also ill, and in Freetown from June to August. 
The change of season has brought a change of 
feeling for the better in me. 
But Mr. Billheimer seems soon to have become 
thoroughly convinced that his work in Africa 
was about done, and commenced to urge the 
Board to send reenforcements, telling them that 
he would shortly have to leave Africa. He 
thought it useless to remain there when he could 
not work, and he had no hope of recovering his 
health if he remained. The Board heard, but 
hoped even against hope that Mr. BillheimeFs 
health would improve, and that he would remain. 
^^The wish was father to the thought.^’ The peo- 
ple of this country were engaged, from the great- 
est to the least, in the heat and strife and suffering 
of a great national war, and the Board, as before 
mentioned, had new and unexpected openings for 
missionary labor; and these openings were such 
as could not be neglected .or postponed. Hence 
they employed a number of missionaries and 
