SHERBRO MISSION. 
CHAPTER XVII. 
Progress of the Work During the Four Years Ending in 1877. 
Chief Caulker’s conversion and happy death 
in the year 1871, the sympathy shown the mission 
by his son, who succeeded him in office, with the 
facts that during the year 1872 there had been a 
number of others who gave evidences of a change 
of heart, and the mission had been re-enforced 
with several additional laborers, several new sta- 
tions opened and new buildings erected, greatly 
encouraged the church at home. 
During the years 1873 and 1874 the work went 
forward successfully. Owing to the failing health 
of some of the missionaries, injury done mission- 
grounds by the Atlantic ocean washing the bank 
away so that the mission-buildings were endan- 
gered at Shaingay, and other perplexing questions 
respecting the organization of churches in Africa, 
the Executive Committee requested the secretary, 
D. K. Flickinger, to go to Africa and to Germany^ 
which also, for various reasons, seemed to need 
such official assistance at that time. 
