240 MISSIONARY LIFE IN WESTERN AFRICA. 
serious obstacles in the way, and at times it looked 
as though they were such as would crush it. 
More than once, when without any protection, 
war parties came near it, who could have destroyed 
its buildings, as no one was there to resist them 
Truly a wonderful providence has watched over 
that mission from its origin. The change that 
came over Chief Caulker, who was induced to give 
us so favorable a location, after refusing it for 
nearly two years, and which caused him at his ad- 
vanced age, and after having been so^ much op- 
posed to the mission and Christianity, to become 
a Christian himself, and its warmest friend, is 
indeed remarkable. 
The leadings of Providence certainly indicate 
that there should be great energy shown in the 
prosecution of the work in Africa. 
