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MISSIONARY LIFE 
just visit them on Sunday, and spend only an 
hour at each place. They can not do justice to 
the cause. Joseph Gomer. 
July 17, 1878. 
REV. DANIEL F. WILBERFORCE. 
This is the hoy who came from Africa in the 
spring of 1871, entered school in Dayton in De- 
cember of the same year, graduated from its 
high-school with special honor in June, 1878, be- 
came a minister and a member of Miami Confer- 
ence in August, was married to Miss Lizzie Har- 
ris of Dayton, October 17th, and with his wife 
sailed from New York in the brig Liberia for his 
native land November 6th, 1878. Early in the 
year 1872, after being in Dayton but a few 
months, he became a Christian and a member of 
the United Brethren Church, of which he is now 
a missionary. Mr. and Mrs. Wilberforce were 
happily converted to God, became members of 
the Third United Brethren Church, — he in 1872 
and she previously, — and at its altar they were 
married, and from its communion they went forth 
to their far-distant field of labor. 
Mr. Wilberforce, while in New York, wrote a 
letter, from which we extract the following : 
Our trip to New York was made pleasant in 
many ways. In the first place, tlie conductor 
