SHERBRO MISSION. 
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Accordingly Mr. Flickinger sailed from New 
York, November 14th, 1874, first going to Ger- 
many, and reaching Africa, January 4th, 1875, 
where he remained three months and a half, and 
returned to Dayton on the 17th of May, barel}^ in 
time to spend the last half day with the Board 
of Missions, which commenced its annual session 
on the 13th of that month. 
The following action of the Board, recorded in 
the minutes of that session, indicates how it felt 
respecting the African mission, and shows, to a 
considerable extent, what the condition and pros- 
pects of the mission were at that time. 
/^Shaingay Mission.— We have abundant rea- 
sons to praise the great Head of the church for 
the success granted to the labors of our mission- 
aries here during the year past; and through all 
the opposition to the work, the word of the Lord 
was not hindered, and from information received 
from Rev. D. K. Flickinger, who just returned 
from Africa, and from the report of Bro. J. Gomer, 
we are more than ever convinced that the great 
Master desires us to go forward in this work; 
therefore. 
Resolved^ 1. That we approve the changes made 
in the work of the mission, and the employment 
of teachers for the schools at Shaingay and Bom- 
phetook, who can labor in the preaching of the 
