IN WESTERN AFRICA. 
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heathen children speaking to God and praying in 
the name of Jesus. We feel it our duty to labor 
all we can and pray more for success among the 
young. We begin to see signs of spiritual life 
among the children. God be praised. The num- 
ber of members on the list since our organization 
is twenty-one ; removals to other parts of the 
countryj three ; dismissed from membership, four. 
The number on the list of the inquirers’ class 
during the year 1875, not admitted into the 
Church, was twenty-two ; removed and carried 
away to the interior, fifteen ; number in attend- 
ance, six ; under the watch-care of the. Church, 
one. The number on the day-school list is twenty- 
five. 
A Yassa dance was got up and kept Bomphe- 
took noisy for a week, by an elderly woman, just 
at the time I expected a favorable result. The 
Burrow devil was out twice, the destruction of the 
cassada farms by wild hogs and of several 
lives by sharks being believed to be the work 
of human beings transformed to wild hogs and 
sharks. I lost no opportunity for several weeks, 
in public and private, to battle against such 
heathenish beliefs, and to show that these, with 
the unsettled state of the country, were the voice 
of God to their chiefs and people. Just when 
^igns of success began to show themselves, a 
