In Afric’s Forest and Jungle 
from the average heathen women around them; 
but when I arrived in Ejahyay, they were already 
distinguished for every Christian virtue. They 
often endured the most bitter persecution with¬ 
out a murmur, supporting themselves by their 
implicit faith in the promises of God. This was 
all to which we could point them, for Areh, as 1 
have before said, declined to interfere. They 
came at stated times and, repeating the words 
after some one, would commit whole chapters of 
the Bible to memory. When discouraged, they 
would strengthen their faith by repeating pas¬ 
sages of Holy Scripture to themselves. I asked 
Mary if she did not feel afraid that the people in 
her house would poison her. 
“The Lord is my helper: 1 will not fear what 
man can do unto me,” she replied. 
When Ofeekee would not eat sacrifice at the 
family festivals nor permit her little son to par¬ 
take, her husband would often flog her most 
cruelly. One Lord’s day we noticed an ex¬ 
pression of pain on her countenance and en¬ 
quired what was the matter. She said nothing, 
but merely lifted her shoulder cloth and ex¬ 
hibited the lacerated flesh. Her husband had 
just beaten her. 
Mary’s husband simply ignored her, and let 
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