The Sherbro and its hinterland . shall always remember that it was on ourbeloved Queens last birthday that this privilege fell tomy lot. The church can seat about 500 persons. This church is worked under the Native Pastoratesystem. The present pastor, the Rev. Canon M. Wilson,, has unbounded influence over his people. Indeed,when one considers what he has stirred them up, by hisown devotion, to accomplish, the whole undertaking, tothose who know all the circumstances, appears not onlymost extraordinary but most hopeful. People who can carry through such a work are surely E 2 52 THE SHERBRO
The Sherbro and its hinterland . shall always remember that it was on ourbeloved Queens last birthday that this privilege fell tomy lot. The church can seat about 500 persons. This church is worked under the Native Pastoratesystem. The present pastor, the Rev. Canon M. Wilson,, has unbounded influence over his people. Indeed,when one considers what he has stirred them up, by hisown devotion, to accomplish, the whole undertaking, tothose who know all the circumstances, appears not onlymost extraordinary but most hopeful. People who can carry through such a work are surely E 2 52 THE SHERBRO AND ITS HINTERLAND CH. v capable of taking other great steps in advance. Thereis plenty of enthusiasm and kindly feeling among them,and what they have done is an object-lesson to the entirenative community. It is the result, however, of a centuryof devoted Mission work ; for to the Missions alone is itdue that the children have been gathered into schools andchurches, and have learned the lessons that have bornethis g-ood IV. i: -OviiRLAxi) Travkllinc; by Canopied Hammock, carried bv FourBearers. Sherbro District.
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