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dered everything now except slaves. Tnough he 
owns none, he has promisad to pay slaves for 
debts previously contracted, and the parties will 
take nothing else. Thus you see Satan’s king- 
dom is tottering, and gradually it is falling to 
pieces. Mrs. Wilberforce was very sick, and was 
taken to town to a doctor. My wife and myself 
are having most excellent health now. 
Joseph Gomer. 
Shengay, West Africa, September 22 , 1880 . 
MRS. MARY M. MAIR. 
We have a most vivid recollection of our 
first acquaintance with Mrs. Mair. She came to 
America from Scotland about the year 1854, at- 
tended Oberlin College about two years, whence 
with her husband she went to Africa to join the 
Mendi Mission. In this field she has for many 
years been a valuable teacher. She teaches not 
only the first principles of a common education, 
but the practical duties and work of life; and 
not these alone, but that country and people have 
never had a more faithful and better qualified 
teacher of God’s word than this good woman. 
Mrs. Mair is a close student of the Bible, apt and 
always ready to teach the way to heaven. More 
than one missionary is indebted to her watchful 
care and tender nursing for the prolongation of 
life. 
