INDORSEMENT. 
From Rev. J. K. Billheimer. 
The fact that the author has been for twenty-eight years corresponding 
secretary of the Home, Frontier, and Foreign Missionary Society of the 
church of the United Brethren in Christ, is sufficient to recommend these 
pages. In this relation he has acquired, by personal visitation, a complete 
knowledge of its missionary operations throughout the Church. He knows 
the African mission intimately from the beginning. Others have spent 
more time in that country, but his official connection with the mission has 
remained unbroken from the time it was projected to the present; and 
eight times has he crossed the ocean, giving his personal service to that 
work for from one half to one and a half years each time. 
! In this volume he makes no attempt at theories or probabilities, but 
gives us an interesting sketch of the people and their customs and habits, 
and of mission-life among them. I feel confident that the circulation of 
this volume will awaken many latent hearts to sympathy with the mission. 
Respectfully. 
Dayton^ OMOf August 1, 1885. 
J. K. Billheimer. 
From Rev. Joseph Gomer. 
Having examined carefully the manuscript pages of “Ethiopia; or 
Thirty Years of Missionary life in Western Africa,” I take great pleasure 
in certifying to the correctness of its delineations of the country, its inhab- 
itants, and their modes of life. The brief and vivid method the author has 
adopted in treating his subjects will add greatly to the interest of the book ; 
and especially will his history of Sherbro Mission prove a highly valuable 
part of the volume. 
Joseph Gomer. 
