. The heart of Central Africa; mineral wealth and missionary opportunity. the value ofQuessua as the site of a central training institution. We visited the out-station at Nenzele, whichis under the care of John Webba and his wife,Miriam, natives of the Congo, who were erstwhileMrs. Springers pupils at Isangila and Vivi, andalso her teachers in the Kifiote. They are doing asplendid work. These two are the first native Afri-cans baptized by Bishop Hartzell. We next visited Pungo Andongo, where theRev. A. E. Harris and wife were in charge. Inless than two weeks after our visit Brother Harrislaid
. The heart of Central Africa; mineral wealth and missionary opportunity. the value ofQuessua as the site of a central training institution. We visited the out-station at Nenzele, whichis under the care of John Webba and his wife,Miriam, natives of the Congo, who were erstwhileMrs. Springers pupils at Isangila and Vivi, andalso her teachers in the Kifiote. They are doing asplendid work. These two are the first native Afri-cans baptized by Bishop Hartzell. We next visited Pungo Andongo, where theRev. A. E. Harris and wife were in charge. Inless than two weeks after our visit Brother Harrislaid down his work and entered upon his eternalreward. Pungo nestles among some famous giganticboulders which rise from the plain like some colossalmedieval fortress, and which are visible for longdistances. The Mission property is just across thestreet from the house (now in ruins), where Living-stone was entertained while in Pungo. This Mis-sion offers a field for extensive evangelistic workamong the surrounding villages. Sickness and > notd > pi Pi d o o> pi o o. Retrospect. 215 death had so reduced the workers in Angola thatfor some time Pungo had been deprived of residentworkers. On the death of Brother Harris, theRev. Walter B. Williams was at once transferredfrom Quiongua, and recent news tells of a wide-spread revival under his ministry. Fifteen miles west of Pungo is Quiongua, wherethe Rev. Ray B. Kipp is in charge. Here we leftthe four boys who had marched across with us togo to school—Jacob, Songoro, Sondo, and Jim—all of whom are doing well and are being trainedfor future Christian service in the neglected in-terior. This station has an excellent equipment ofeight or ten substantial buildings, several of themof stone quarried from an adjoining hill, and itrepresents for the most part the results of thepersonal labors of the Rev. W. P. Dodson, theSuperintendent for several of its early years, andof the Rev. Amos E. Withey, the Presiding Elderof the Angola Mis
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