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dren in our day and Sunday schools (a consider- 
able number of whom are also in the industrial 
school), upon most of whose young hearts the law 
of God has been so engraved ^s to lead them to 
Christ, and not a few of whom will become fel- 
low-laborers in the great work of evangelizing the 
continent of Africa in the near future. I also 
took account of the 1,526 members we have 
there, the large majority of whom were, a few 
years ago, as degraded heathens as ever lived. 
Most of them are now striving earnestly to fol- 
low Christ. Among these are to be found the 
old heathen woman who followed us from Shain- 
gay to Good Hope, sixty miles distant, to attend 
the annual district-meeting, and who embraced 
the only opportunity she had^to speak in the serv- 
ice, at 6:00 a. m. class - meeting, on Sunday 
morning. She always attends these meeting at 
Shaingay, and never fails to speak in honor of 
her Savior. I also made note of the sixty raw 
heathens who walked several miles near the hour 
of midnight and awoke one of our missionaries 
to have him tell them of Christ. The missionary 
had preached in the evening to about thirty per- 
sons, it being the first time he was there. A 
couple of men were there from a neighboring 
town, who went home after meeting and told 
