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like them, but if they eat without praying God 
would not like them. Frequently on meeting- 
nights he would go through the village asking the 
people to come to the meeting and pray, so the 
war could not spoil the country. But poor little 
Tommy was taken sick very suddenly, one day, 
while playing on the sand-beach, and in a fev 
hours his spirit was with God. 
Joseph Gomer. 
WHAT HAVE WE IN AFRICA? 
We have at Shengay a large day-school and a 
still larger Sunday-school, an organized society of 
over forty members, and quite a number of others 
who profess religion, — some of whom are Chris- 
tians, but are not entirely free from polygamy, 
slavery, and the Burrow, — who in due time will 
become members of the Church. There is also 
here an excellent mission-residence ; and there are 
two chapels, — one in Shengay, which will accom- 
modate one hundred and fifty people, and the neat 
new stone chapel, on the mission-ground, which 
accommodates two hundred and twenty. The one 
hundred and fifty acres of land which we own here 
constitutes the healtliiest and most accessible place 
on the west coast of Africa, among the heathen 
proper. At Bomphetook we have an excellent 
country chapel, and a church of about twenty 
