Under the Southern Cross: Or, a Woman's Life Work for Africa

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Cosimo, Inc., 2005 M12 1 - 464 páginas
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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CHAPTER PAGE I Childhood
15
Religious Experience
20
Preparation
25
Getting at My Life Work
30
The Voyage and Landing
39
First Experience
53
Our African Neighbors
64
NatalThe Land
79
Spying Out the Land and Settling
271
Again at Work
280
Progressing Slowly
288
Itinerating
294
A Study of Inhambane Natives
300
A Further Study of Inhambane Natives
316
Day by Day
325
Life and Death
337

HistoricalChalka
89
Customs Superstitions and Beliefs
99
Pouring on Cold Water
123
Varied Experiences
132
My School
149
Two Weddings
168
Our Work at Bethany
176
Incidentals
186
Further Developments
199
A Zulu Wedding
217
Summary of One Years Work at Bethany
229
Clouds and Sunshine
241
CHAPTER PAGE XXI A Trip to Zululand
250
Strange Providences
264
Resignation
348
In the Highways and Hedges
353
Thinning Out the Ranks
370
Looking Toward Home
377
My Final Tour
385
Man Proposes God Disposes
397
Sweeping Through the Gates
401
Farewell to Inhambane
408
Retrospective and Prospective
413
Haviland Memorial Mission
425
Readjustment
433
Olivet Mission
446
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Página 66 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not ; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works...
Página 367 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Página 199 - And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.
Página 338 - That oft before had filled or haunted me, And now returned with threefold strength again. The door I opened to my heavenly guest, And listened, for I thought I heard God's voice ; And, knowing whatsoe'er He sent was best, Dared neither to lament nor to rejoice. Then with a smile, that filled the house with light, " My errand is not Death, but Life," he said ; And, ere I answered, passing out of sight, On his celestial embassy he sped.
Página 29 - Henceforth then It matters not if storm or sunshine be My earthly lot, bitter or sweet my cup ; I only pray, " God fit me for the work ; God make me holy, and my spirit nerve For the stern hour of strife.
Página 24 - For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake ; 30 Having the same conflict "which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
Página 415 - For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

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