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Show AFRICAN RETOnNS TO DEVIL WORSHIP HUNTINGTON. Ind.. March 10.-The executive committee of the Missionary Board of the United Brethren In Christ lias dropped from the roils of the church Daniel Flicklnger. Wllberforce, a native" African, who was brought to this country as a child, and after being educated was returned by the board to his old tribe f a missionary. - . It. is charged by the- board that after a service at twenty-five years as a missionary mis-sionary the negro minister had. been lured back to heathenism, snd become chief nt his old tribe of devil worshippers and has contracted plural marriages in the wilds of Africa. Nearly fifty years ago Dr. Daniel Kuni-ler Kuni-ler Flicklnger, then secretary of the Missionary Mis-sionary Board of the church, was In West Africa on mission work. While visiting a Congregational mission announcement was tnads that a mala child had been born In the negro village. - Tho. host of Flicklnger christened the baby Daniel . f-ifcklnger Wllberforce. Twelve years later the boy had been brought to America by a returning missionary, mis-sionary, and Dr. -Flicklnger accidentally discovered him at work at the missionary mis-sionary house In New York. He took the lad to Dayton, O., and he was sent to school, then through high school, and . later fo a medical college at Cleveland. He married a negreas at Dayton, and the two went to Africa to do missionary work among the ofQ tribe from wmch Wilberforcs came. ' - later the family returned to this coun try and Wllberforce lectured throughout the Central State. His four children. wo sons and two daughters, attended Sentraft-: college, here. Two. sons -are still i tbia country,' one at Otterbern college and the1 other in the Dayton high school. -Wllberforce returned to Africa and the - Ppardr has been Informed of his .return ' to bdhenlsm and Its accompanying . plaral marriages, together with his b' coming chief of the tribe. The venerable Dr. Flickinnr Is much depressed- over die back-sliding of hi-rotege, but sanctions sanc-tions the action of the board. . |