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chapter I have referred to her diary-keeping. Another illustration may

be cited. Fifteen years before her death she determined to retain copies of her letters. The last letter she ever wrote, given in the previous chapter, was taken from her copy, and not from the original.

Her patience was as impressive as her strength of mind, and she had need of it all. The perversities and the backslidings of men and women and children for whose salvation she toiled and prayed tried her sorely, but she never gave up hope or the effort and the prayer which hope inspires. The children under training in her household were a care to her by day and night, which she sustained to the very end. After the session had closed at Kimpese, and when the illness was already upon her which resulted in her death, she wrote a long letter to Mrs. Bowskill, extending to several closely written quarto pages, discussing mission business. In the course of it she gave an account, not untouched with humour, of the impish tricks of one small girl of the household, whose genius for mischief engineered a series of midnight casualties and alarums suggestive of the interference of malignant spirits. Detected and foiled in other matters, the culprit one night startled the dormitory with outbursts of screaming, ostensibly occasioned by a recurrent dream that she was being badly beaten. Finally, Mrs. Lewis sent her husband to assure the innocent sufferer that next time the dream came _he_ would fulfil it _with a stick_. There was no next time.

But the grand trial of her patience was the seven years’ work at Kibokolo. By long labour, by kindness which could not be exhausted and would not be gainsaid, she won the respect and confidence of her wild, barbarous neighbours, and toward the end of her stay there were hopeful signs of coming harvest—the harvest of souls, for which her soul longed with passion derived from the very heart of God. She often spoke of the weariness and discouragement of those years of waiting. But her patience never failed. She held to her work, confident that if not in her day, yet surely in days that followed hers, the faithful sowing would be recompensed by Divine increase. It was even so. And the patience which waited for it was divine patience. I do not know whether she was acquainted with Dora Greenwell’s “Carmina Crucis,” but I can well imagine her finding comfort in one fine verse, so perfectly expressive of her own soul’s attitude:

“And while my God is waiting I can wait.”

There is little need to speak of her courage. I decline to call it masculine. There was nothing masculine about her. Her courage was sustained by faith. She was engaged on God’s business; she trusted Him to take care of His servant, and trusting found no cause for fear. One incident which I have failed to locate in the story may be cited in further illustration. In the course of a journey which she was making with her husband through unexplored country, her hammock-bearers and a number of carriers got ahead of Mr. Lewis, who had been detained. Suddenly their progress was barred by armed natives, who opened fire. The carriers dropped their loads and bolted, and her hammock-bearers besought permission to set her down. This she peremptorily refused, and by sheer power of will kept them to their duty. There was more firing, but putting large trust in God and some lesser confidence in the bad marksmanship of the natives with their flint-lock guns, she waited until Mr. Lewis came up and placated the enemy.

If Mrs. Lewis lacked the brilliant intellectual qualities which are notes of genius, she possessed in liberal measure what genius often wants, in disastrous destitution, viz., good sense—sense so good that it made her far-seeing, as Mr. Brock justly observes, and of sound judgment. Her papers which have passed through my hands prove abundantly how profoundly her practical wisdom was respected by her colleagues, who, as I have already stated, were accustomed to appeal to her for counsel in their many difficulties; and I know that I can claim the concurrence of Mr. Baynes and Mr. Wilson when I say that there was no woman on the field whose opinions concerning the conduct and the policy of the Mission were received by the Committee with greater consideration.

She was an excellent judge of character, and though charitable toward all men, by no means confined herself to the use of honeyed words. She never found fault where there was none; but when she found it she described it in plain terms. In confidential letters to her friends occur passages of personal criticism which would make piquant reading if it were permissible to publish them. Conscientious and painstaking herself, she loathed slackness and slovenliness, especially when they appeared in what purported to be the service of God. Once, upon a great occasion, she heard a paltry speech from a minister of repute. Upon a lesser occasion he repeated large part of this speech, watered down to more insipid weakness, in her hearing and mine. I had known her a long time, but the withering terms of her criticism were something of a revelation.

Her habitual calmness of demeanour tended to suggest that she was unemotional; and this sometimes placed her at a temporary disadvantage in dealing with people who looked for demonstration. She was conscious of such disadvantage; and I recall a letter in which she congratulates a sister missionary upon the possession of a temperament which encouraged instant response. But “still waters run deep,” and if Mrs. Lewis was a great woman, as I believe she was, it was in chief because “she loved much.” She loved the dumb creatures about her, and was profoundly moved by the sight of their suffering. I once said to her husband, since her death, “Was her calmness never broken up? Did she never explode?” And he replied, “I only remember three or four occasions upon which she was carried away by fierce anger, and in every instance it was cruelty to animals which provoked the explosion.”

She loved the lowly creatures of God; but her greater love was given to those whom He has made in His own image, and for whom Christ died. Of her love for her husband and her kinsfolk and her elect friends, who answered her love in kind, little need be said. It was beautiful and worthy of her, but still within the common range of human experience and emotion. The love which marked her out and made her great was that holy charity which regards with divine compassion the ugly, the unthankful, and the evil. Squalid African babies, men and women foul with hideous vices and enthralled by bestial customs, were to her kind heart the dear objects of incessant solicitude. Enlightened by her great love, she understood the frightful strength of the forces which crushed them, yet steadfastly believed in the possibility of their deliverance. Surrounded by naked savages possessed by legions of devils, she saw as in a vision these same savages, clothed and in their right minds, sitting at the feet of Jesus, and the vision lured her on to persist, at any cost, in those ministries of love through which she hoped He might effect the transforming exorcism.

And this great love was begotten and sustained in her soul by faith in “Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” She was an evangelical Christian. In early youth, as she journeyed, she came to a place where there was a cross, and as she gazed at Him who hung there, the burden of sin rolled away, but the burden of love came upon her, and she never dropped the blessed load. “He loved me and gave Himself for me,” was the dominant note of those “everlasting chimes” which made the cheer and inspiration of her sacrificial life. And the love which was “unto death” for her, was “unto death” for the whole world. And where in the whole world were men and women whose need of the knowledge of the love of God was more clamant and tragical than that of the Congo peoples? The fingers of the pierced hand beckoned her to Africa. To Africa she went; and for Africa she lived and died.

* * * * *

One personal word, and my task is done. Upon his return to England, alone, Mr. Lewis told me that during one whole day, as his wife lay dying, her minister’s name was continually upon her lips; and, moreover, that she had expressed the desire that if anything were written about her it should be written by his hand. The kindly reader will understand that this affecting statement could not fail to impart a certain solemn tenderness to the temper in which I undertook my work. I would that the hand had been more cunning, and the heart and brain behind it worthier of the confidence and affection of my friend. But I have done my best. I have observed restraint. I have painted in quiet colours, as she herself would have desired. And if this simple memorial of Christian character and consecrated service carries on the thought of the reader to the Lord who inspired them, and elicits sympathy for the cause to which they were so freely given, my recompense will be great, and I will render humble thanks to God, Who made her what she was, and permitted me to write her story.

FOOTNOTES

[1] “The Life of George Grenfell, Congo Missionary and Explorer” (Religious Tract Society), p. 91 _et seq._

[2] See Note B (p. 345).

[3] See Appendix, Note C.

[4] _The Missionary Herald_, 1892, p. 400.

[5] See Appendix, Note D.

[6] See Appendix, Note E.

[7] See Appendix, Note F.

APPENDIX

NOTE A.—P. 55.

THE GERMAN ANNEXATION

The following passage taken from the Report of the Baptist Missionary Society, May, 1885, states the case succinctly:—

“For many years past the Committee of the Society have indulged the hope that a favourable response would be returned by the British Government to the repeated appeals from the chiefs and headmen of the Cameroons district that their country might be taken under the government and protection of the English Crown, and when sending in memorials to successive Governments asking the same favour for the Society’s settlement of Victoria and the adjacent district belonging absolutely to the Mission, the Committee have frequently pleaded on behalf of the Dualla people also.

“With regard to the Cameroons, however, all such expectations must be finally abandoned, as the district is now under German authority, the whole country having been annexed to the German Empire in August, 1884. The story of how this was brought about is so plainly told in a recent Blue Book presented in both Houses of Parliament, and entitled ‘Africa, No. 1, 1885. Correspondence respecting affairs in the Cameroons,’ that further reference to it here is unnecessary.

“The Committee, however, cannot refrain from placing on record their sincere regret that the British Government so long delayed taking action in response to the numerous appeals of the Cameroon chiefs and peoples, as but for this delay recent painful and disastrous events might altogether have been avoided, and the often expressed desires of the Dualla peoples complied with.

“Nor is the recent annexation of the settlement of Victoria by the British Government likely to be attended with any real advantage to the dwellers there, if reported concessions of surrounding territory by the English Government to Germany be a fact; as by such arrangement the small township and territory belonging absolutely to the Mission will be completely environed by German possessions, and trade with the interior rendered practically valueless in consequence of restrictive and almost prohibitive duties and exactions.

“The outlook at present is dark in the extreme, and it appears more than probable that the work of the Society on the West Coast, rendered so dear to the denomination by the sacrifice of many noble lives and the outlay of large sums of money, may have to be relinquished.

“Should this eventually prove needful, the Committee earnestly hope that the work there may be carried on by some Evangelical German Missionary organisation, whose agents may have the joy of reaping a rich harvest from the toils, the tears, and the seed-sowing of devoted workers, many of whom have fallen asleep.

“Under present circumstances, however, and while negotiations are being carried on with Her Majesty’s Government by the Committee, it would be premature to forecast the future, or take any definite steps in the matter.

“The Committee are devoting to this painful business their constant and careful attention, and they earnestly invite friends of the Society to unite in special prayer on their behalf, that they may be Divinely guided to such issues as shall best promote the glory of God and the truest welfare of the peoples of the West Coast.”

The apprehensions of the Committee were realised, and in 1887 the stations on the Cameroons River and at Victoria were handed over to the Basle Mission.

NOTE B.—P. 110.

KONGO AND CONGO

The ancient kingdom, of which San Salvador was the capital, was the kingdom of _Kongo_. And the language of the Lower Congo region, of which Dr. Bentley wrote the grammar and dictionary, and into which he translated the New Testament, is the _Kongo_ language. The San Salvador district is spoken of by the natives as _Kongo_. Hence when Mr. and Mrs. Lewis were departing for Kibokolo, they were said to be leaving _Kongo_. The distinction between Congo and Kongo is not always observed, but the reader will understand, when he meets the “K” spelling, that it is not used in error.

NOTE C.—P. 134.

“CONCERNING THE COLLECTION”

It may perhaps not be quite superfluous to inform the reader that the pig was duly paid for, and its price placed in the treasury, before it was eaten at the Mission Christmas feast. Obviously all the other items of this strange collection must needs be in like fashion turned into money, for transmission to London. Otherwise Mr. Baynes and his staff would have been decidedly embarrassed by the receipt of a consignment of goods, including a very dead pig, a keg of gunpowder, and all the rest of it.

NOTE D.—P. 168.

THE OLD CATHEDRAL

The Portuguese discovered the Congo River in 1482, and in course of time San Salvador became the centre of a Christian civilisation of a kind. Several churches were built, and the Cathedral ruins referred to were the relics of the greatest of them. But the slave trade was of greater interest to the Portuguese than the business of evangelisation, and ecclesiastics engaged in it. When our missionaries reached San Salvador, only the faintest traces of earlier missions remained. For many generations barbarism had resumed its ancient sway.

NOTE E.—P. 194.

“THE FIRST WHITE MEN”

When Lieutenant Grandy reached San Salvador in 1873, the King was ill with small-pox. The traveller treated him, left directions for further treatment, and foretold the progress of the case. Upon his return from Tungwa, he found the King full of wonder at the traveller’s knowledge and gratitude for his own recovery. By way of proving his gratitude he was asked to treat kindly the next white men who came along. He promised; and our missionaries reckoned themselves, in part, indebted for their good reception to the King’s fidelity to his promise.

NOTE F.—P. 310.

“BELLA”

“Bella” is 27 inches high, with fair hair and eyes that open and shut. She was sent out to Kibokolo by the children of Belle Isle Church Sunday School, for Christmas, 1903. In due course she migrated to Kimpese, and though her complexion had suffered in the Congo climate, as is usual with English children, her first appearance made a great sensation, and the fading of her beauty was overlooked by her admirers. It was originally intended that she should be the “child” of a certain black girl whom the Belle Isle scholars supported. But Mrs. Lewis determined that she should be the “child” of the Mission; and to this decision, with its consequent restrictions, “Bella” doubtless owes her soundness of limb and her comparatively long career.

INDEX

Adams, Mr., 169, 176

Allen, Dr., 50

American Mission, 300

Antwerp, Seamen’s Church, St. Paul’s, and Cathedral at, 163

Appendix, 343-7

Arthington, Robert, 20

Bain, Mr. and Mrs., 303

Balfern, Mr., 158

Baptist Missionary Society— Annual Meeting of, 15 demands compensation for property destroyed by Germans, 66 valedictory meeting at Bristol, 88

_Baptist Times_, the, 267

Barosa, Padre, 121, 192

Baynes, Mr., 30, 37, 54, 61, 82, 87, 128

Bayneston, 31

Beedham, Mr. and Mrs., 185, 186

Belgian Colonial Minister, 319, 331

“Bella,” 347

Bentley, Dr. Holman, 21, 120, 254, 256, 266, 267

Bowskill, Mr. and Mrs., 225, 230, 250, 254

Bristol, 87

_British Weekly_, the, 321

Brock, Rev. William, 29, 37, 128

Brook Mount, 46

Brown, Rev. J. J., and Mrs., 3, 42, 91, 130

Buckenham, Mrs., 40, 53, 69

Burnley, Mr., 50

Burton, Capt., 19

Butcher, Mr., 31

Camberwell, Denmark Place, Baptist Church at, 9 “Camden Road, Congo Sale,” the, 17

Camden Road, London, church at, 4, 297

Cameron, Mr. and Mrs., 253, 283

Cameroons, German annexation of, unpopular, locally, 55

“Carmina Crucis,” 337

Catholic Mission, 319

Churchill, Mr. Winston, 320

Clarke, George Rix, 2

Clifford, Dr., 306

Comber Memorial Station, 183, 219

Comber, Miss, 36, 48, 50

Comber, Percy, 38, 131

Comber, Dr. Sidney, 15

Comber, Thos. J., 9-15, 18-23, 32, 113, 190

Congo Mission, 20-23

Crudgington, Mr. Harry, 21

Dibundu, 47

Doke, Mr., 28, 29

Dom Miguel, 222

Dykes, Rev. Oswald, 87

Dyson, Capt., 53

Elembe, 188, 193

Fletcher, Miss, 44, 49

Forfeitt, Mr. and Mrs. Lawson, 132, 154, 165, 193, 238, 266, 297

Forfeitt, Mr. and Mrs. William, 315

Fuller, Mr. and Mrs., 69

Gamble, Dr., 296, 300

Gardiner, Mr., 163

_Geographical Journal_, the, 263

German annexation, the, 343-5

Graham, Mr. and Mrs., 98, 101, 102, 103, 132, 191

Grand Canary, Sailors’ Institute at, 150

Greenwell, Dora, 337

“Grenfell, George, Life of,” 154, 321, 325

Grenfell, Mr. and Mrs., 14, 15, 19-23, 30, 31, 32, 92, 129, 153, 267

Habershon, Dr., 282

Hampstead, Heath Street, church at, 37

Harris, Rendel, 308

Hartland, John, 11, 16, 21, 29, 30-33

Hartland, Miss Alice, 17, 24, 38

Hartland, Mrs., 25-8, 30, 33, 34, 142-4 (_See under_ “Letters.”)

Hartley, Mr., 44

Hay, Mr., 52, 53, 67

Henderson, Mr., 43

Hewitt’s, Miss Amy, impressions of Mrs. Lewis as schoolgirl, 6-8

Hewitt, Misses, their school, 5

_Hilldrop Magazine_, the, 6

Hilldrop Old Girls’ Club, the, 6

Hooper, Mr. and Mrs., 230

Hughes, Mr. W., 31

Ipswich, history of, 2

Islington, Providence Hall, Baptist Church at, 3

Ja-Ja, King, 44

“Jeremiah,” 99

Johnston, Sir H., 308

Johnstone, Mr., 47

Kimpese Institute, 284, 312

Kirkland, Mr., 279

Kivitidi, 107, 108, 114, 119, 133

Kongo and Congo, 345

Ladies’ Missionary Working Party, the, 37

Lamartinière, Monsieur de, 7

Lau, 194

Lembwa, 98, 99

Leopold, King, 248

Letters from Mrs. Lewis to— Mrs. Hartland, 25-6, 27-8, 29-30, 34-5, 36, 40, 49, 55, 63, 66-7, 71-7, 77-81, 110-11 Miss Hartland, 35, 86-8, 109, 120, 146-8, 152-6, 166-8 Nieces, 70, 135 Mrs. J. Jenkyn Brown, 111-12, 158-61, 238-41, 247-50, 266, 268-70 “A correspondent,” 156-8 Miss Ethel Percival, 163, 168-9, 170-3, 257-8, 301, 302-4, 309-10, 311, 321 “Lily and Alice,” 325-6 Mrs. Howell, 328-9 Mr. Baynes, 179-82, 219-23 Mrs. Pinnock, of Kibokolo, 289 Mrs. Hooper, of Kibokolo, 289-90, 291 Mrs. Kirkland, of Mabaya, 290-1 Mrs. Moon, 293-5 Miss Taylor, 299-301, 305-7, 310-11 Miss Beatrice Percival, 301-2, 304-5, 307-9 Mrs. Gamble, 320-1 “Fanny,” 327 “Bee,” 327-8

Letters from Mr. Lewis to— Mrs. Hartland, 68-9 Mr. Wilson, 281-2

Letters to Mr. Lewis from— Mrs. Edward Robinson, 332 Rev. Wm. Brock, 332 Mrs. Jenkyn Brown, 332 Mrs. Hooper, 332

Lewis, Mr., first meeting of, with Miss Thomas, 48; acts as doctor and nurse, 50; brief account of, 52-3; compelled by Germans to go to Bell Town, 59; friendship with Miss Thomas, 64; goes to Old Calabar to meet Miss Phillips, 71-2; marriage with Miss Phillips, 74; death of his wife, 77; engagement to Miss Thomas, 85; attends valedictory meeting at Bristol, 88-90; marriage, 90; sails for Congo, 92; baptizes five candidates at San Salvador, 102; builds home, 107; health fails, goes to England, 127; deputation journeys, 129; ill with influenza, 130; sails for Africa, 130; report for 1892, 145-6; seriously ill, 148; voyage to Grand Canary, 149; return to Mission, 153; undertakes planning and directing work of building new chapel, 173; opening of new chapel, 184-97; invited to settle in Kibokolo, 198; story of work in Zombo, 198-215; review of work in connection with the Congo Mission, 215-19; new home in Kibokolo, 224; account of reception and prospects, 224-6; accompanied by Mr. Cameron on journey of itineration, 254; reads paper before Royal Geographical Society, 262; visits England for sake of health, 281; sent to Edinburgh, 283; deputation work, 284; offered and accepts appointment of B.M.S. tutor at United Training Institute, Lower Congo, 284; article by, on Kimpese Institute in _Missionary Herald_, 285-9; account of opening of United Training Institute by, 312-4; death and burial of wife, 331

Lewis, Mrs., birthplace and parentage, 1-3; her affection for Wales, 1; comes under influence of Rev. Francis Tucker, 5; conversion, baptism, admission to Church fellowship, becomes Sunday-school teacher, 5; influence of T. J. Comber upon, 9; death of her mother, 16; death of brother-in-law, 18; becomes governess, 26; dispatches letter to Mr. John Hartland accepting proposal of marriage, 27; studies Portuguese, 27; death of her father, 28; receives news of John Hartland’s death, 30; accepted by Baptist Missionary Society, 36; receives farewell gifts from Camden Road Church, 37; embarks on the _Corisco_ for the Cameroons, 38; suffers from sea-sickness, 39; arrives at Madeira, 40; story of Benin expedition, 42-3; reaches Victoria, meets Mr. Lewis, 48; attacked with fever, 49; called to nurse Miss Comber, 50-52; a good sailor, 54; misadventures on board the _Congo_, 54; writes account of German attack, 55-60; strong friendship with Mr. Lewis, 64-5; left with Mr. Lewis in charge of Mission at Bethel station, 66; in poor health, 67; meets Miss Phillips, 72; in a tornado, 73; at marriage of Mr. Lewis and Miss Phillips, 74-5; account of illness, death, and burial of Mr. Lewis’s first wife, 77-81; returns to England, 82; receives, and declines, proposal of marriage, 84; engagement to Mr. Lewis, 85; in residence at Zenana Medical Home, 85; experiences at Bristol, 86-8; attends valedictory meeting at Bristol, 88-90; married to Mr. Lewis, 90; sails for Congo, 92; diary of journey to San Salvador, 92-101; work at San Salvador described, 104-6; journey to Madimba, 115-19; mastery of language, 120; circular letter, 122-5; sent to England, 126; returns to San Salvador, 127; accompanies husband to England, 127; Congo Sale at Camden Road, 128; ill with influenza, 130; sails for Africa, 130; extracts from circular letter, 139-41; accompanies husband to Grand Canary, 149; return to Mission, 153; deputation work in England, 162-3; resting in Switzerland, 163; return to duty, 165; contracts mumps, 168; circular letter, 173-8; writes account of opening of new chapel at San Salvador, 184-97; visits Kibokolo, to found Comber Memorial Station, 219-23; her affection for dumb animals, 228-9; extracts from correspondence giving impressions of life at Kibokolo, 231-62; account of visit to Mabaya, 265-6; journey to San Salvador, to nurse Mr. Mayo, 273-5; takes Mrs. Mayo to Matadi, 276-7; extracts from diary, 278-9; visits England, 281; death of niece, 283; holidays at Stockholm, Peebles, Pwllheli, Deal, Millington, 292-3; serious attack influenza, 295; returns to Africa, welcomed there, 299-301; circular letter by, 316-20; report of her work, 322-4; stricken with fever—collapse, 325; her last correspondence, 326-9; death and burial, 331; characteristics, 333-42

Liley, Mr., 44

Lloyd George, 309

Lowrie, Mr., 303

Lualaba River, 20

Lyall, Mrs., 73, 74

Mabie, Dr. Catherine, 267

Maclaren, Dr., 89

Maentwrog, 1, 162

Mansonso, 197

Masson, M. Gustave, 37

Mata, 192, 202, 203, 204, 221

May, Mr. and Mrs., 26

Mayo, Mr. and Mrs., 271-9

_Missionary Herald_, the, 45, 122, 127, 142, 199, 233, 284, 312

Moolinaar, Mr., 122

Moon, Mr., 302-3, 310

Myers, Rev. J. B., 30

Ndonzwau, 193

Ndosimao, 222

Newport, Mon., 129

Nlekai, 108, 109, 135, 190

Nodes, Miss Rosa, 10, 24

Oram, Mr., 158

Parkinson, Mr. C. W., 151, 161, 163

Parkinson, Mantu, 189

Parkinson, Miss May, 151

Penmaenmawr, 162

Percival, Beatrice, 18

Percival, Ethel, 18

Percival, Eva, 18, 282-3

Percival, Dr. Richard, 18

Pewtress, Miss Emily, 10

Pewtress, Mr. S. Leslie, letter from, 12-13

Pewtress, Stephen, 10

Phillips, Mr., 92, 93, 94, 97, 98, 101, 104, 132, 174, 175, 176, 185, 196, 306, 307, 308

Phillips, Mrs., death of, 179

Phillips, Miss, 53, 65

“Pilgrim’s Progress,” the, 270, 281

Pinnock, Mr. John, 52, 71, 149, 197

Pople, Mr., 155

Robinson, Mr. and Mrs., 87

Ross, Mr., 87

Royal Geographical Society, 262

Saker, Alfred, 19

Saker, Miss, 44, 46, 47, 49, 53

San Salvador— King of, 117, 132 Catholic Mission at, 121, 135

Scrivener, Mr., 93

Seymour, Mrs., 24-5, 61, 86

Silvey, Mr., 47, 50, 58

Sims, Dr., 303

Smith, Annie, 8, 131

Smith, Emily, 8, 17

Smith, Mrs. Frank, 87

Smith, Mrs. Jonas, 17

Smith, Jonas, 8, 14

Soden, Baron Von, 75

Spencer, Miss, 296, 300

Stapleton, Mr. Walter, 126

Swedish Missionary Society, 285

Sygrave, Miss, 271

Thomas, Eliza Jane, 18

Thomas, George, 1

Thomas, Griffith, 1-3

Thomas, Herbert, 4

Thomas, Jane, 2

Thomson, Mrs. Quintin, 45

Tucker, Rev. Francis, 4

Tyndale Chapel, 87

Union Chapel, Manchester, 4

United Conference of Congo Missionaries, 266

United Training Institute, 284, 312

Vita, 166, 188, 195

Wavatidi, 192

Weeks, Mr., 101, 102

Weeks, Mrs., 93

Welford, Mr. and Mrs., 71

Wherrett, Mr., 163

Wilson, Rev. C. E., 281-2, 296, 338

Wooding, Mr. and Mrs., 225, 272

Zombo— Scheme, 178 Story of work in, 198-215

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