Polygamy 
others persecute and annoy her without noticing 
them. When he was killed during the bloody 
siege of Ejahyay (of which I shall tell farther on) 
Mary had an opportunity to show the difference 
between a Christian and a heathen. She ob¬ 
tained permission to live with her little son in 
the native compound connected with the mission 
premises. After she had been there several 
months, she learned that a young man who had 
been a ringleader in everything devised for her 
annoyance, was lying, desperately wounded and 
entirely deserted, in the compound of which she 
had been an inmate. Getting permission from 
Mr. Phillips she had her enemy brought to that 
part of our compound in which she was living 
and nursed him back to life as if he were her 
own son. If I had not already become a Chris¬ 
tian, the wonderful change in the character of 
these two converts from paganism, would have 
led me to become a disciple. 
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