SHERBRO MISSION. 
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CHAPTEE IV. 
Two More Missionaries Appointed — Kfforts to Tocate at Sliain- 
gay Successful — Chief Caulker’s Design — location Described. 
The Church did not wait long. A number of 
names were presented to the Executive Commit- 
tee for appointment to the mission in Africa. 
From these names the committee selected and ap- 
pointed Dr. W. 13. Witt of Cincinnati, and 
Eev. J. K. Billheimer of Virginia. Mr. Witt was 
an excellent physician and a faithful minister 
of the gospel. Mr. Billheimer was a young man 
of more than ordinary piety and fully consecrated 
to the work of saving souls. These appointments 
of the committee were hailed by the Church at 
large as being quite happy in themselves, and an 
earnest of the successful prosecution of the foreign 
mission. 
All things being ready, the missionaries named, 
accompanied by Mr. Flickinger, who was still re- 
tained as the superintendent of Sherbro Mis- 
sion, took ship at New York and sailed for Africa, 
arriving at Freetown early in January, 1857. In 
