American missionary memorial : including biographical and historical sketches . s work was evident from his prompt refusal to lin-ger longer than he had intended in America. To those whoentreated him to delay and plead the cause of missions athome, he replied, I can not tarry ; it is the cause of my Africa is the portion of my Masters vineyard which he hascommitted to my care. How can I be content to tarry, lestGod should say to me as he said to his prophet of old, Whatdoest thou here, Elijah ? I was called to preach the G-ospel inAfrica, not to act as traveling agent in America. And n
American missionary memorial : including biographical and historical sketches . s work was evident from his prompt refusal to lin-ger longer than he had intended in America. To those whoentreated him to delay and plead the cause of missions athome, he replied, I can not tarry ; it is the cause of my Africa is the portion of my Masters vineyard which he hascommitted to my care. How can I be content to tarry, lestGod should say to me as he said to his prophet of old, Whatdoest thou here, Elijah ? I was called to preach the G-ospel inAfrica, not to act as traveling agent in America. And now again at home in Africa, we find him in charge ofa small chapel at Mount Vaughan, erected chiefly for the ben-efit colonists. During the year his letters exhibit a pros-perous and animated state of things in the mission-school. InFebruary, 1841, we discover him, released from the confine-ment of the school, and bearing traces of the debilitating ef-fects of too much labor, gun in hand, and accompanied by asingle native boy, making an excursion of exploration and of. tf^tv^i! REV. LAUNCELOT B. MINOR. 455 missionary service among the Grebo tribes of the interior. Theimpression which he made upon the natives—a mixture of rev-erence and admiration—appears from the fact that they sub-sequently flocked to the mission-house at Mount Vaughan toinquire for Minor, that white man who came to their coun-try to talk G-od-palaver to them. He impressed them by hispowers of endurance, and his ready adaptation to the customsof the country, no less than by his religious enthusiasm andzeal. In 1841, the missionary brethren determined to open a sta-tion without the bounds of the Maryland colony. This resolu-tion seemed to Mr. Minor to open the way for his long-cherishedhope of devoting himself entirely to the natives. He thereforeoffered his services for an exploring expedition into the Tabooregion. Here, under circumstances of great discouragement,he established a mission, and lived
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