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CHAPTER V. 
Rev J-. A. Williams — His I^ife and Death — Sabbath-school — Two 
Souls Converted — Their Firmness in the Truth, 
I closed the last chapter with a reference to Mr. 
Williams. He was employed by Mr. Billheimer 
as an assistant, in 1859, and continued to serve 
as such — and sometimes as the only missionary 
on the ground for months together — -for eleven 
years. His Master then took him. 
Mr. Williams was a native of Africa, and had 
been educated in the mission-schools of Freetown. 
He was a local preacher in the Lady Huntington 
connection. Prior to entering the service of our 
mission he was employed as a clerk, in a large 
mercantile establishment in Freetown. He sac- 
rificed his situation and a good salary to enter 
our service at much lower wages. But he felt he 
was working for his Master in heaven, and was 
well repaid in daily supplies of grace. Mr. Bill- 
heimer had organized a Sabbath-school at the 
mission. About one year after the chapel began 
to be used he reported a class of ten persons who 
