A life for Africa : RevAdolphus Clemens Good, , American missionary in equatorial West Africa . subject with theirs. One day the Fang themselves undertook tosettle a discussion of this kind in their townby a characteristic method. Each white manshould send for a canoe of tobacco. Let itbe brought and given; then we will knowwho is best. The priest fell into the plan atonce. I let him commit himself thoroughly;then I told them plainly that the Word of Godwas what I came to give. If they heard it,well; if not, it was their palaver. I wouldpreach it to them, but would not pay them tolisten;
A life for Africa : RevAdolphus Clemens Good, , American missionary in equatorial West Africa . subject with theirs. One day the Fang themselves undertook tosettle a discussion of this kind in their townby a characteristic method. Each white manshould send for a canoe of tobacco. Let itbe brought and given; then we will knowwho is best. The priest fell into the plan atonce. I let him commit himself thoroughly;then I told them plainly that the Word of Godwas what I came to give. If they heard it,well; if not, it was their palaver. I wouldpreach it to them, but would not pay them tolisten; it was worth being heard without theirattention being bought. And, to my sur-prise, the people said I was right. But it was a year of strife with the Jesuit 78 A LIFE FOR AFRICA mission. It was their aim to bring Protestantmissionaries into disrepute with the Frenchgovernment. They snatched and burnedProtestant Scriptures in the hands of poor,pagan, black people, as if they were living inSpain; and Mr. Grood came back to the oldconclusion, We shall never have any peacetill we teach some fIng idol prom the ogowb. CHAPTER y A Rising Tide on the Ogow^ 1886—1887 NOTWITHSTANDINa attacks upon it,the Word of Grod became precious inthose days. A spirit of inquiry arose in theOgowe concerning things of the soul. InMarch, 1886, the class of inquirers was swelledto over thirty members. Swifter and swifterflew the Montclair down the great river fora week at a time, in all weathers, putting into shore wherever a group of banana-leavedroofs showed above the tall grass; and peoplelistened to the words of Grod in direct,well-mastered Mpongwe. In June twenty-three were added to the inquiry class. Iwas counting on from three to five. Referring to this time, Mr. Good wroteto his secretary, several months after: I 79 80 A LIFE FOR AFRICA thouglit of announcing the good news then,but hesitated. I doubted the motives of somany in coming. There is nothing I somuch dislike as writing good n
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