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MISSIONARY LIFE 
CHAPTER XXYII. 
FUTURE STATE. 
Africans generally believe in a future state of 
being ; but tbeir views of that state are very differ- 
ent. The Timinies speak of ‘^good die” and ^^bad 
die’’ meaning that some die happy, and others 
miserable. They also speak of ‘^goodlive, and ^^bad 
live” in eternity — meaning that some will be happy 
there, while others will be unhappy. 
Some of the Mendi tribe believe that persons 
will sustain the same relation to each other in 
eternity that they do in this life ; that those who 
are head-men here will be head-men there, and 
those who are slaves here will be slaves in the 
future world. In view of this belief, a head-man 
on the Boom River, during my stay in Africa, sent 
a company of men to make war upon a town to 
kill slaves for his son, who had been killed in 
a previous engagement by the people of that 
town. His people met with a second defeat ; and 
when they came back and told the old man what 
