This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...hold that view. But occasionally some event occurs which arrests public attention and provokes discussion. Such an event was the death of three missionaries in west Africa a few years ago, who to all appearances died from insufficient support, and from a persistent reliance on faith instead of medicine in extreme ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...hold that view. But occasionally some event occurs which arrests public attention and provokes discussion. Such an event was the death of three missionaries in west Africa a few years ago, who to all appearances died from insufficient support, and from a persistent reliance on faith instead of medicine in extreme sickness. Nine missionaries sent out in connection with what was known as the "Kansas Movement," were landed near Sierra Leone. None can doubt the purity of their motives or the sincerity of their devotion; they had doubtless been pained by the criticisms of a worldly church upon the "luxuries of foreign missionaries," and they resolved to cast themselves on the Lord, and without salary, and without even medical care, devote themselves to the establishment of a mission in Western Soudan. For the sequel we refer the reader to a letter written by the Governor of Sierra Leone to the British Minister at Washington, who transmitted it to our Secretary of State, together with a report from the Colonial surgeon at Freetown. The report stated that upon their arrival they began to live in native fashion, eating native food, cooking and washing for themselves, and collecting their own fuel even in the rainy season, hoping thus to gain the confidence of the natives. On the 9th of July two of the party died, both of whom had been such staunch believers in faith cure that they had taken no medicine. Two days later a third died of exhaustion from neglected fever, having been ill about nine days. As the fourth patient in the list refused the services of a physician, the latter reported to the Governor that the missionaries, by the course pursued, had developed a malignant type of fever, which endangered the whole community. He therefore quaran...
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1899
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Good with no dust jacket. ix, 282pp + 7 unnumbered pages. Book has dark green covers with gold and white text on the spine. Wear and minor tears to head, tail and corners. Very minor marks on the covers. Ex-library with stamps and white text on spine, otherwise text is clear and unmarked.; Ex-Library; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 298 pages.
