IN WESTEEN AFRICA. 
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um. So he take plenty of money and he come to 
the man. The man tell um, say, Go wash your- 
self ; and he vex for that. And his servant tell 
him, say, "What matter you no want to wash ? So 
he wash, and he get better just now.’’ 
The head-man of Tissanna sent, last week, to 
tell me that if they die and God asks them why 
they do not keep meeting there on Sundays they 
will tell him that we Shengay people were to 
blame for that. At Sandoo, Senehoo, Bonthe, and 
Mambo they sent, saying that we must come to 
them all the time. > Joseph Gomee. 
September, 1877. 
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN AFRICA. 
I have been much interested in the new indus- 
trial work that is being begun by Mr. Gomer at 
Shengay. That has been my idea of missionary 
work in Africa for a quarter of a century. Though 
laboring under great discouragements, I have been 
permitted to experience gratifying results. Of 
the twenty-four children — twelve boys and twelve 
girls — taken into the industrial school at Good 
Hope twenty-two years ago, four have died, leav- 
ing the best of evidence that they were converted 
and have gone to heaven. One of them gradu- 
ated with honors at an American college and 
returned to his people as a Christian minister, 
