Life and light for woman . prayers going up for ourembryo work. Of course you know of the with-drawal of the Wellmans on account ofDr. Wellmans ill health ; this leavesMr. Ennis and myself alone on thestation. We have gotten along veiywell thus far, though being unable toleave the place restricts us sadly in thevillage work. It is nearly two yearsand a half since the first bit of workwas done at Sachikela station. Thesite is a beautiful one, at the foot ofMt. Elende, on the site of Samokakasvillage. Samokaka was a famous chiefMRS. ELIZABETH LOGAN ENNIS who led in a rebellion against the govern
Life and light for woman . prayers going up for ourembryo work. Of course you know of the with-drawal of the Wellmans on account ofDr. Wellmans ill health ; this leavesMr. Ennis and myself alone on thestation. We have gotten along veiywell thus far, though being unable toleave the place restricts us sadly in thevillage work. It is nearly two yearsand a half since the first bit of workwas done at Sachikela station. Thesite is a beautiful one, at the foot ofMt. Elende, on the site of Samokakasvillage. Samokaka was a famous chiefMRS. ELIZABETH LOGAN ENNIS who led in a rebellion against the government, and was extremely influential and powerful among the natives,who tell weird tales about his supernatural powers. The country is verythickly settled, but we are not very near to the native villages ; the nearestis nearly an hours distance, and there are many two and three hours igoS2 Work at Sachikela, West Africa 453 Mr. Ennis and Dr. Wellman have each built comfortable little brickhouses. There is a grass schoolhouse, and during the wet season we built alarge grass church building, but in March a severe windstorm blew the roofoff, quite ruining it. The native village on the station consists of one longstreet, with several permanent houses and many temporary huts. Of courseour native population here at the station is a shifting one, and as we emplovall that are here we have had to turn away a great many because we couldnot afford to hire them, though there is plenty of work to be done. A num-ber of men have expressed themselves as desirous of coming here to live, buttheir wives are yet unwilling to leave their heathen lives and the social inter-course of their villages. I long to have some work among the women ;many of them come to the Sunday services and show a great deal of interest,and we are praying that in this way their hearts maybe touched so that th
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