Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . resbyterian Mission in Old Calabarare accounts of the same shocking scenes. On the death of Eyamba,a native king, a massacre of his wives and slaves, and even of manyother women, took place ; of his hundred wives, thirty were late reports from these dark regions bear the same story of una-bated bloodshed. The Ijebus have recently sacrificed two hundred andfifty victims to their gods, in order to prevent the white man from takingtheir The king of Eboe, at his death in 1893, was accom-p
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . resbyterian Mission in Old Calabarare accounts of the same shocking scenes. On the death of Eyamba,a native king, a massacre of his wives and slaves, and even of manyother women, took place ; of his hundred wives, thirty were late reports from these dark regions bear the same story of una-bated bloodshed. The Ijebus have recently sacrificed two hundred andfifty victims to their gods, in order to prevent the white man from takingtheir The king of Eboe, at his death in 1893, was accom-panied by forty sacrificial The late Rev. J. Vernall wrote 1 The Gospel in all Lands, July, 1894, p. 296. 2 Milum, Thomas Birch Freeman, Missionary Pioneer to Ashanti, Dahomey,and Egba, p. 62. Cf. Work and Workers in the Mission Field, January, 1896, ; February, 1896, p. 81; and April, 1896, p. 158. 3 Dickie, Story of the Mission in Old Calabar, p. 29. * Church Missionary Intelligencer, February, 1893, p. 120. ? Medical Missionary Record, February, 1894, p. 40. , ,. A Communion Scene at Banza Mantake. The assembled native converts, with few exceptions, were formerly savage cannibals.
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