Worshipping the Dead Prince 
into “ the light of the knowledge of the glory of 
God in the face of Jesus Christ ” he would have 
been amply compensated for all that he suffered 
while in Africa. He doubtless never knew any¬ 
thing about the conversion of this man until he 
met him in heaven. And many other mission¬ 
aries may expect the same experience. They 
must work and wait. God will give the increase 
when it pleases Him, but it will certainly come 
sometime and that when it is best that it should 
come. If there are those who are skeptical on 
this subject, it is all the worse for them. We 
cannot but believe what we see and hear. I 
made his coffin with my own hands and buried 
him by the side of Mr. Phillips’ wife. Not one 
of his people honored his memory with their 
presence on this occasion. 
A few weeks after this, I witnessed another 
burial ceremony of a very different kind on the 
same spot. Bashorun’s heir was desperately 
wounded and brought to me in the mission com¬ 
pound. Nothing could be done for him and he 
died as the heathen die—without a ray of light 
from the other world. His body was wrapped 
in costly silk and lay in state until night. Then 
the Ogbonees came and carried it to a grave that 
had been dug for it near that of Ardayloo’s. As 
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