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MISSIONARY LIFE 
Africa on a sail-vessel. I left our missionaries 
there reasonably well, happy, and busy. God is 
blessing our foreign missions abundantly. 
I wish to record my heart-felt gratitude to God 
for his loving - kindness toward me during the 
seven months’ absence in Germany and Africa, 
and especially in making the days and nights 
spent upon the deep waters, which otherwise 
would have been so lonely and gloomy, to be days 
and nights of genuine contentment and religious 
enjoyment; also, for giving me working-health 
every day I was in Africa, though I did suffer 
considerably from climatic influences and loss of 
sleep on account of traveling so much in a row- 
boat at night. God has prospered our undertak- 
ings both in Germany and in Africa far beyond 
what we had reason to expect, and by his merciful 
providence kept the intense cold of Germany as 
well as the great heat and malaria of Africa from 
permanently harming me. The Lord caused me 
to realize in a marked manner that his ways are 
ways of pleasantness, and all his paths are peace. 
HAD THEIR OWN RELIGION. 
I returned this morning from a trip over to 
Yondoo. I visited Rembee and Baccah also. I 
held three meetings at Yondoo, all of which were 
well attended. At both the other plaices I had 
