. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. first day of the new year,1834. So again, after being six months withouta guiding hand, the new mission was equippedwith a staff. Once more the gaunt arm of the white mansfoe — the fever — was raised to descend withfatal blow, and in two short months, RufusSpaulding and Saphronia Farrington, theirown veins throbbing with fever, were alone atthe station, and there were three graves insteadof one in the little cemetery. In May, Spaulding, unable longer to combatthe fever, decided to return to the that Miss
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. first day of the new year,1834. So again, after being six months withouta guiding hand, the new mission was equippedwith a staff. Once more the gaunt arm of the white mansfoe — the fever — was raised to descend withfatal blow, and in two short months, RufusSpaulding and Saphronia Farrington, theirown veins throbbing with fever, were alone atthe station, and there were three graves insteadof one in the little cemetery. In May, Spaulding, unable longer to combatthe fever, decided to return to the that Miss Farringtons remaining inLiberia would cost her her life, he repeatedlyurged her to return also — once, almost withsuccess. But again in the history of the worlda woman stood in the breach in a time of gravecrisis. For both workers to have returned toAmerica would have meant to abandon themission, and for this Miss Farrington decidedshe could not be responsible. Others had laiddown their lives for Africa-—why not she? Fever-racked and alone, then, this woman, JM. 68 UNDER THE CRESCENT the sole representative of the Methodist Churchin all Africa, lay and battled for life. But Godneeded that one woman to hold in her frailhands the remnant of his work, and SaphroniaFarrington did not die. Her testimony of her almost miraculousdeliverance from the clutch of the fever issound and convincing. It suddenly left her asshe prayed. She smiled when the physicianassured her that he had never in all his experi-ence wrought so great a cure. So did this heroicwoman hold Africa for Methodism. Her storyshould not be forgotten. JOHN SEYS It needed a man of some mental poise, aswell as religion, to enter the environment whichfaced the Rev. John Seys, superintendent ofthe Liberian work after Cox. The first nightafter he arrived at Monrovia, he occupied themission house in which both Cox and theWrights had died only a few months was entertained during the evening withminute det
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