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MISSIONARY LIFE 
She had gone, and was living a life of sin. Was 
it her sin, or that of her father ? With Lucy the 
separation from the man who was called her hus- 
band was only a question of time. Heathen 
children are taught to obey their parents, not 
only while they are children, but after they have 
grown up to manhood and womanhood. Lucy 
patiently submitted to her cpndition while her 
father lived. Shortly after his death she insisted 
on being married according to English law to the 
man with whom she had lived, and thus legiti- 
mize their children, or she would separate from 
him. This he refused to do, and she at once left 
him. During all these years of trial Lucy kept 
her Bible near her, and did not forget the lessons 
taught her at the mission. She returned to Shen- 
gay and built herself a house midway between 
the town and the mission-station, thus becoming 
a kind of link between her heathen people and a 
Christian mission. 
Lucy has for some years been employed by the 
mission as a teacher and helper in our general 
missionary work in Africa. Her relation to the 
people, owing to her birth, and her firm stand for 
the principles of Christianity have given her 
great infiuence among the Sherbro people. Eor 
some time she has had charge of Maiioh Sta- 
tion, about ten miles distant from Shengay, where 
