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MISSIONARY LIFE 
when lie ran into the bush. To-day the Furrow 
does not control the common people. 
Twenty years ago the Christian Sabbath was 
not known. 'No religious services had been held ; 
Christ had not been preached to the people. To- 
day the Sabbath is better observed there than 
in France, or even in portions of l^ew York City. 
To-day men, women, and children assemble for 
morning prayers and services at 10:00 a. m., Sun- 
day-school at 3:00 p. m., and services again in the 
evening. The ^Hom-tom,’’ or African drum, is 
not heard on the Sabbath as it was twenty years 
ago. 
Eighteen years ago, while building the mission- 
house, I had a law forbidding any one in the em- 
ployment of the mission to go to Shengay on the 
Sabbath to ^‘beat drum’’ or dance. That law was 
violated by one Bgannah. On Monday morning 
Tong ” came and told me what had been done. 
I called all the people and explained again why 
the law had been made, and w^herein it had now 
been violated. I felt it to be a very serious case, 
and by the aid of the Holy Spirit was enabled to 
so impress the wrongfulness of this violation of 
mission-law on the minds of the young men 
that they not only asked my forgiveness, but 
also begged God’s mercy. Eleven young men 
gave their names, expressing a willingness to 
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