Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan - June 1895) . e of the ready help which she ren-ders to many in the village when they are inneed. Another of those baptized was a young ladnamed Ndono mba, who is a good deal belowthe age at which we usually admit to baptism onprofession. But his case seems an exceptional one. More than two years ago he was broughtto the mission station from a village in the inter-ior by his uncle, who said that the boys parentswere dead, and that the boy himself had askedhim, the uncle, to bring him to the missionstation and leave him there. Since then he hasbeen almost co
Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan - June 1895) . e of the ready help which she ren-ders to many in the village when they are inneed. Another of those baptized was a young ladnamed Ndono mba, who is a good deal belowthe age at which we usually admit to baptism onprofession. But his case seems an exceptional one. More than two years ago he was broughtto the mission station from a village in the inter-ior by his uncle, who said that the boys parentswere dead, and that the boy himself had askedhim, the uncle, to bring him to the missionstation and leave him there. Since then he hasbeen almost constantly at the station, and hasproved an unusually bright little fellow, veryapt to learn. And best of all, his youthful heartseems to have been opened thus early by theHoly Spirit to receive the knowledge and loveof the truth. He has been for a good whilepast in the inquiry class taught by Ntyango, andhas surpassed all the older ones in learning thecatechism which is there taught. And it does notseem to be a mere rote learning, but a real feel-. NATIVE PREACHER, WIFE AND CHILD. ing in the heart of the force of the truth. It isour hope and prayer that he may prove to be aFang Samuel, not only hearing the Lords voicethus in early youth, but growing up into astrong servant of God, and turning many of hispeople into the way of righteousness. A HEAD MAN BAPTIZED. Along with the three women and the lad abovementioned, was baptized Ndongo-Ngwa, thehead man of the village, who is about fifty yearsof age. He had been examined and admitted bythe church session before my leaving on furloughlast year, but before the day on which he was tobe baptized his wife ran away—an occurrenceunhappily frequent among the Fang—taking 504 PERSIA. [June, with her their youngest child. This act of herswas not caused by any unkindness on his part,but by waywardness in herself, and probablytemptation on the part of her relatives, whohoped to make more gain through her. Fearinglest he might be thus invo
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