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MISSIONARY LIFE 
CHAPTER XL. 
WHAT WAS DONE FROM 1860 TO 1870. 
In the year 1860 Rev. Charles 0. Wilson accepted 
an appointment to Sherbro Mission, and reached 
it in the month of November. After spending a 
short time at Shengay he returned to Freetown on 
business, and became seriously ill with the African 
fever, which kept him there for about one month, 
when he so far recovered as to be able to come 
home, which he did on the recommendation of 
his physician, who declared it to be necessary to 
save his life. This was a great disappointment, 
both to Mr. Wilson and the Board of Missions, 
and an additional discouragement to the friends 
of that mission. For fear that the Church would 
be dissatisfied with his course, and withhold money 
and sympathy from that work on account of his 
returning without rendering any service, he gener- 
ously proposed to pay all the expenses of the trip, 
which he did. 
This left Mr. Billheimer and Mr. Williams, the 
