The special work to which I had been appointed at Fair View was the school work; although my instructions given by Superintendent Roberts on the eve of my departure for Africa gave full liberty to evangelize as well as to teach. My manual read something like this: "Do not be satisfied to be merely a school teacher. Be an evangelist. Go out to the kraals, preaching as you go. Make the salvation of souls your one and only business." -from "Chapter XIII: My School" The missionary work of Westerners in Africa is long and storied-here's another tale of the long-term attempts to convert a continent. Privately published, this is one woman's account of her Christian work in Zulu country, from her childhood-she was born in 1863-on farms in Iowa and Kansas, where she had a youthful brush with death that led to her conversion to an active Christianity, to her return home after long years doing the Lord's work. The time in between is fraught with culture shock: her difficulties in learning the Zulu language, her disdain for Zulu tradition and mythology, even a particular scorn for the food she found unpalatable. Stolid and unbending, this is a curious document of a less enlightened time, a firsthand look at the mindset of a bygone time.
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Brother Agnew, South Africa, Sister Agnew, Free Methodist, Memorial Mission, Sister Allen, Brother Terrill, Church of England, Brother Noyes, Missionary Board, Holy Spirit, Missionary Tidings, New York, Sunday School, Bethany Zulu Mission, Brother Roberts, English Church, Sister Lincoln, Brother Haviland, Chief Faku, Old Naomi, United States, Annual Board Meeting, Baby Nomvula, Cape Town New!
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On the 21st of December, 1863, in Tama County, Iowa, the subject of this sketch was born. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hammock carriers, needy field, missionary secretary, civilized clothing, ordinary fever, missionary meetings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Brother Agnew, South Africa, Sister Agnew, Free Methodist, Memorial Mission, Sister Allen, Brother Terrill, Church of England, Brother Noyes, Missionary Board, Holy Spirit, Missionary Tidings, New York, Sunday School, Bethany Zulu Mission, Brother Roberts, English Church, Sister Lincoln, Brother Haviland, Chief Faku, Old Naomi, United States, Annual Board Meeting, Baby Nomvula, Cape Town New!
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