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members. Here too, is both a day and Sunday 
school. This place is also on the coast, and but 
fifteen miles farther down than Shengay. A few 
towns still farther on, and the seven or eight 
between Bomphetook and Shengay, may all be 
easily reached; and most of them have been visited 
occasionally by our missionaries. What have we 
in Africa ? A small but good beginning made, 
with scores of open doors of usefulness inviting us 
to enter and convert the people from the error of 
their ways. We have in Africa thousands of souls 
to enlighten and save. 
Among the number who joined the Church at 
its first organization in 1874 was a woman named 
Hannah, a convert who did it amid keen opposi- 
tion. .Her husband beat her severely for joining 
the Church; but having found Christ precious as 
a Savior from sin, she continued faithful until 
death, which occurred nine months afterward. 
In the beautiful and touching words of Rev. J. 
W. Hott, how true it was of her that while 
her body sunk down into death, her soul 
rose up higher and higher until it shook hands 
with Christ and the angels. From the shaded 
shores of Africa pure spirits are being caught 
up to God, washed in the blood of the Lamb 
Oh, it must be wondrously glorious to get 
right up out of lieathenism, and shake oft* all iuS 
