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Show MISSIONARY WORK niffi AFRICA How It la Interrupter, hv the Mirrilgfj Tustoms IVrtain inj: to Native Girls. Special LS Thr Trlhun nkw York. .'.n i Uarrlsffja . u- t-nis in Africa have lite ' - 1 oil- r ition Jor tbe 1 nl Iv sirls, who me , n i ffect as miK-b i f ol (ectn rf fagrtSff and sale Js ever they ersra In the das when the traders were prev ent on the West Cossi. A letter amt reeelf'Sjd frcm the I rt ibyteTlas mission stntlon vt I.olodorf shows how the HSU j ISgS -pa'ov t " Inter-fareS Inter-fareS with th" edutntl Ml of the girls III the schools established PoT thrm b th- Ptasbytsrlsa Boaru of Porelgn Mission Miss Jen K MackSOSle writ. the .teller, .tel-ler, and after telling of the format I'M Of the girls' Itoardlng school and SOSM dO-te.lls dO-te.lls of the day s work of the si holnrs V In. 111 Sht describes ns Intelligent. . lemi little girls, willing and active Io larn. he writes 'Very happy were the little girls and free for several weeks. Then we fell under the curse of ihe 'nnrrlage psJavSI One girl. 11 house servant, was BOld to a 1 man owning several wives When II i tame to delivery of the goods the good beennn animated in dissent not. Indeed that consent had been asked of th. n Is The Stntlon hacked the girl N'-wa ol this de (lanes "f gii.oi Ngumbs custom : ponetrMeu to the ends of ihe earth and 1 wok" li thousand anxieties The SOCial fobrie was Imperilled. Two of the mtli a-irl" were led uwnv weeping b jnns mule relatives this we tad to see. My own little servant Mikalij. was ordered to her town i h r ant le. hi r father be- 1 log off In Hut. where lie Is hunting goods With which to buy a new wife upon whose purchase he means to glv--Makako a part payment. i'i. re .ni see i Ihe exit of "three little Injun The I si hool is depleted and In Ill-repute. Arouses Native Feeling. 'Putting up over night nt IpOSXK where oi e r the children llvs I heard fioni her th?l the townsfieople -j. of Ihe ifhi.ol. No little girl may nim i v ho ' enters there' You are reminded, douhr- . i less, of the lejjend over the gnte tO fixnte's hell Mv single stale Is n mallei of common marvel- It does not help us In our present dUBculty. and mny be taken as evldei f .i i nit fnun whbh young Ng'inii'.i maidenhood must be pro- I tecteu. "Mfun the little girl in rpieation. had bai siaie as token of her having drunk hi the Wells ( burning It hung In her Imi a diploma hangs I. u doctors of- ' flee wit nessing t.i her poor little nehteve-I nehteve-I ments She slept In my hut ami did me some service i paid my debt with a needle imi some thread when next I go I shall take her some patches Patches are deal to little African girls. Poor Amana, when she wus taken away, went 1 down the path wiping her eves on her bit nf patchwork. ' We were sad WbOfl these children were taken awa. Any work for girls lii a polygamous country Is sod. Other girls will come Some ho--.- parents are I'hrlstlan. or otherwise enlightened we shall lie able to keep and some will gi Vet not wlthoul benefit Something thej win have learned of reading and writing. of sewing and washing, of truil. an. I of the love of God "The night before Mfun left, when I I asked the children for What they Would wish me i" pray, she isld "Tell Htm that I no afraid Of gluing married.' It 1 a comfort to know (hat our High l'i e-i was touched bv the feeling (hat mt is Infirmll i |
