Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan - June 1895) . rced before long. DEATH OP A BUND PREACHER. While still in the boat which was conveyingus from the steamer to the shore, we heard thatRev. Toko Trueman, the Mpongwe minister,was nigh to death. As Is was detained at thebeach by the necessity of getting our baggage 502 BLINDNESS BLESSED. [June, through the custom-house inspection, Mrs. Marl-ing went up to Baraka and thence with to see the dying man. But he wasalready unconscious. That day he died. ThroughDr. Nassaus invitation I had the privilege ofsaying some words to the large crowd
Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan - June 1895) . rced before long. DEATH OP A BUND PREACHER. While still in the boat which was conveyingus from the steamer to the shore, we heard thatRev. Toko Trueman, the Mpongwe minister,was nigh to death. As Is was detained at thebeach by the necessity of getting our baggage 502 BLINDNESS BLESSED. [June, through the custom-house inspection, Mrs. Marl-ing went up to Baraka and thence with to see the dying man. But he wasalready unconscious. That day he died. ThroughDr. Nassaus invitation I had the privilege ofsaying some words to the large crowd of nativeswho assembled the next day at the funeral. I made Mr. Truemans acquaintance when Ifirst came to this mission in 1880. He was thenephew of old Toko, who was the most influen-tial man in Gaboon in the days of the early mis-sionaries, but who had passed away long beforeI ever saw Africa. When Mrs. Marling and I,after our marriage, moved up to Nengenenge,sixty miles up this river, Toko Trueman wasassociated with us in the work there. He was. CHURCH SESSION, BATANGA. my first assistant in learning the Fang after this he was sent among the Fangup the Rembway River, where he remained forsome years, till becoming ill with diabetes, hereturned to Gaboon. His once portly frame waswasted by this disease, and it was supposed byall, including the French physician, that he wasabout to die. Nevertheless he recovered. Buthis sight was entirely gone. BLINDNESS BLESSED. The loss of sight was of course an afflictionkeenly felt by him. But, as in the case of themore distinguished Milton, it was a blessing indisguise. Previously, though a sincere Chris-tian, he had been lacking in earnestness as a minister and preacher. But being by his blind-ness excluded to a large extent from the world,and shut up to reflection, he was led through theworking of Gods Spirit to a deeper acquaintancewith the truth and a more adequate realizationof its supreme importance This was manifestw
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