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MISSIONARY LIFE 
misery and superstition and death, and burst 
right into the heavenly mansion ! I should like 
to see these poor souls when they first open their 
eyes on the beauty and bliss of that blessed city of 
Jesus/’ 
Another one of our members there died, who 
was saved in the kingdom of grace, and of whom 
Brother Gomer wrote, ‘‘Brother Williams and 
myself on yesterday attended the funeral of the 
old mat-maker, l^a Yan Kin. She was nearly 
eighty years of age, and a slave. She died in the 
faith, trusting in Jesus. When I have more time 
I wish to write to you of her life, and of her 
daughter who died a few months ago; how Yan 
Kin died ; how they wrapped her in a mat, tied 
her to a pole, and buried her two feet deep.” 
This old woman would not attend meeting for a 
long time, because she had but one eye; but over 
three years ago she was converted, and abandoned 
work on the Sabbath-day, and lived a Christian. 
“From that far-ofi:* land souls are going to dwell 
with Jesus. Some of our missionaries, who were 
once in Africa, but are now in heaven, must rejoice 
to see the converted heathen coming to sit down 
in the kingdom of God.” In short, we have a good 
deal in Africa, and a few souls in heaven, as the 
results of our labor among the Sherbro people. 
