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couragement upon the part of Mr. Billheimer, is 
admirably adapted to the use for which it was 
erected, and with the kitchen and veranda since 
added furnishes excellent accommodations for 
from four to six missionaries. With care and 
some repairs, it will be a comfortable house for 
the next fifty years. The same is true of the new 
stone chapel. These substantial, commodious, and 
well-arranged buildings, with the grand scenery, 
both on land and the sea, make the mission-prem- 
ises an exceedingly lovely spot. Beautiful for 
situation, the joy of all who behold it,” is Shengay 
Mission-Station. The patient, persevering, and 
self-sacrificing labors of those who gathered the 
material, and had it prepared and put together so 
as to constitute these good houses, deserve to be held 
in remembrance by those, both in America and 
Africa, in whose behalf they were built. To Mr. 
Billheimer belongs the honor of superintending 
the erection of the first chapel, and the only mis- 
sionary residence we have ever had at Shengay, 
which he did well. 
