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MISSIONARY LIFE 
CHAPTER XLI. • 
MR. GOMER AND WIFE AND MR. EVANS SENT TO AFRICA^ 
MRS. HADLEY’S RETURN. 
Mr. Joseph Gomer and wife, whose appointment 
to Africa was referred to at the close of the last 
chapter, did not reach the mission until January, 
1871, having been detained a short time in 
Liverpool. They found that the buildings and 
premises were damaged for want of attention. Mr. 
"Williams, who had left the mission for a month or 
two previous to his death, to attend to some busi- 
ness engagements down the country, was never 
permitted to return to Shengay. He left the build- 
ings and grounds in charge of a native, who paid 
but little attention to them. 
While Mr. Gomer was discouraged at finding 
these things in suchn sad plight, he yet was greatly 
encouraged by a much more friendly feeling of the 
people to the prosecution of the mission than they 
had formerly shown. God had been working 
among the people in a marked manner without 
