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from rags to glory, are well remembered atr 
Shaingay. Our Mohammedan friend, who was 
poisoned, and ’who suffered much and long be- 
cause he renounced Mohammedanism and became 
a Christian, also died trusting Christ to the last 
moment of his life. John Williams, one of our 
missionary boys, who had been doing good service 
as an interpreter for the last four years, and who 
was sick for months before he died, then staying 
with his mother, one half mile from the mission- 
house at Shaingay, sent for the mission-children 
one evening to come and sing some of the blessed 
songs which they together had often sung before, 
telling them when they first came that he would, 
go to be with Jesus that night, and naming a few 
pieces he wished them to sing, died before the 
musical programme which he had given them 
was exhausted. The successful life and triumph- 
ant death of David Louding, whose funeral 
brought together such a concourse of people in 
Dayton, Ohio, as seldom meets on such occasions, 
and who as a student and Christian made an im- 
pression which will not soon be forgotten, ought 
to be mentioned as an asset of Sherbro Mission. 
There are still other valuable assets, such as WiD 
berforce, Thomas Tucker, Frank. Dixon, and at 
least. half a dozen other native helpers, who have 
