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MISSIONARY LIFE 
CHAPTER XXXVIII. 
DR. WITT AND REV. J. A. WILLIAMS. 
Dr. Witt, who accompanied Mr. Billheimer to 
Africa, spent most of his time at one of the stations 
of the Mendi missions and in Freetown, during the 
year and a half he remained in that country. 
Being well skilled in the science of medicine, a 
fluent preacher, and a warm-hearted Christian, he 
had the qualifications in a pre-eminent degree to be 
useful in any country, both to the bodies and souls 
of men, which he was to the degraded sons and 
daughters of Africa. At the time he received his 
appointment to Africa he was practicing medicine 
in Cincinnati, and held a professorship in one of 
its medical colleges. He also found time to preach 
frequently, and was in a pre-eminent sense a zeal- 
ous doer of good works. 
Mr. Billheimer having been alone at Shen- 
gay from the commencement of the work 
there till the beginning of the year 1859, 
he sought and obtained the services of Rev. 
