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PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, FEB. H, 1881. 2 returning. So on to Old Calabar, I .Savage Africa, the Niger, and the mother. •. She is taken to the bush, i which we reached Saturday, at dark, j and is obliged to stay there seven Binne. — * -- days. If any one conveys her food That is, we reached the mouth of the Christian Statesmanship in France. I ings, and aim to rid the services of church-like form or surroundings. To make them, in other words, thorough BY OSO. MAY FOWKl.L. ly practical and matter of fact. Men . Some of the ablest statesmen and often weep at these meetings while a writers in France have evidently dis primitive Christianity is preached to cerned that Christianity is at once the them, and say : " This is what France only foundation of permanent political wants.” Religious liberty has now prosperity; and also the keystone in j roused a spirit of revival in the bosom the grand arch of the Superstructure. 1 of the Roman church. The Protestant This was verp. plainly discernable by church is relatively small, but it num any attentive listener of even average bers a million, most of whom are podr. comprehension who was present at State support having been withdrawn the recent address'of the Rev. M. from the former, it totters and will Reveillaud at»Chambers Presbyterian fall if the Protestants are supported. church. This‘address translated by In two meetings Ipjd-by M. Reveil the Rev. Mr. Dods, first assistant to laud at one point 300 Catholic men, the Rev. Dr. McAll, in Paris—-was of heads of-families, united to form a thrilling inleiest. The meeting, was Protestant church- They have added presided over by the Rev. Dr. Breed. seventy stations, and Bibles and tract« The pastor; Rev. Dr. flits, also, spoke are eagerly bought in great quantities words of "warm welcome. M. Revoil- in Paris and the large cities and laud was appropriately introduced as ‘ towns as well as in the Country. A permanent organization has been “ the Luther of .the Evangelical work ■ effected Ja. Philadelphia to aid this in France. He »aid ui_ substance ■ work. — C'/i ri-> <<( it Statesman. that an eminent journalist recently and she lives at the exaration of river or estuary. Not many, years seven days, she can return. Further since, they, as well as the Bonny | Wishing to visit the valley of the west, in the Yoruba Country, ,- - twins people; .annually sacrificed an Albino woman on the bar, to appease the K ‘ Niger, and to learn what I could of its I are - ---------------- held as sacred, • This is the darkest belt of the Dark wrath of the demon of the angry , climate and inhabitants, and the best waters. Slowly we wended our way mode of getting to them, with a view . Continent, broken in a few places up the river, under-the brilliant star to future missionary operations, I took here, and there by Gospel light, re light of the tropical sfkies, running so passage at M’onrovia, Liberia, -on the flected from the too few mission near the bank, in following the chan stations. Some are hearing of^the Cortsco, September 17th. *' Book Saba ” and wonderful “ God nel, that in some places the overhang We anchored in Bonny Bay. at the palaverj^“ that pass all Juju and all ing branches of the trees scraped the mouth of the Bonny River, the lower.; oux— CMiHitry?'. fa»h.' - A - prominent p.Ou.i^cnt ship's ropes. Duke Town, 44 miles mouth of The Niger, September 30th. r,«„v rrnw'RofTrry rrnw'tt<TfTnrv thirty up the-river, was reached at 10 P. M: chief, living back Bonny lies very low; consequently it niilfjs and coming there frequently to Next morning a Sabbath stillness is almost certain death to Europeans. trade, attended the mission church. reigned over all. ■ «. Quite early the bell The traders all live in hulks of old from the Scotch “ kirk ” on the hill vessel«, anchored in the bay.’ The He finally built' a large country rang out sweet and clear over the church, and invited the missionary, great receiving hulk was once the Archdeacon Crowther, to come and hifis and over the water. Never did magnificent steamer Adriatic. But show’ his people ", God palaver. Last I church-bells sound so musical, so oh ! what bad business she is ip, in month he Went. A chief of another deliciously heavenly before ’ Nothing her old age. The cargo she receives town was present. This chief listened for weeks, in a heathen land and on consists- largely of rum and gin,- ar very attentively, and at the clojs'i.ofj the rivers, to remind one of Holy Day. ticles of traffic on the African coast the preaching he rose up and ‘asked : Here are heroes and heroines of whom . which make the degraded heathen Palaver done set ’ I go. I come the world is ignorant, toiling on, year wrote of the work, that Protestantism Words Receive Conscience. - stsll mere degraded. next sun and hear more palaver.” after year, till this moral wilderness is wa> :in the air. French statesmen, in m < KIRLIST. THWI>O At Bonny I took passage in. one of Next day he came, bringing two boxés beginning to blossom as the rose. I their speeches and Writings, had fitted the small “’Branch Steamers for in nis canoe. These, contained his went to a town called Qus, where one the minds of the masses with the idea Words deceive the conscience. Akassa; on the Niger, the headquar and his family's Jujus, with his*big service was held, A pole in the that Romanism has been the cause of “ Men believe,” remarks Bacon, “ that ters of the great African Trading war Juju. To this he said he had center of the town, surrounded., by their national weakness, and tpat of their reason is lord over their words : Company. They own all the steam offered over fifteen puncheons of oil. I »mall platforms, raised about-five f^et all other nations just in pfojiortioii as hut it happens, too. that words exer ers. except the Jjeurjj I’e/in, [dying “ I no want him any more. Take him high. In these were dishes of pot it controlled -alsothht. the strong cise a reciprocal and reactionary up and down the river from this alii" he said. The Arehdeacon saved tery, containing “ medibine.” “Medic nations were, and in the nature of the power over - the intellect. . - , . point, and monopolize the entire trade some from destruction, two of which ine ” is to make them successful in case were bound to be, Protestant. Wolds, its a Tartar's bow, do shoot of the Niger, consisting of palm oil, war, guard the town from evil powers, Gambetta often and emphatically tells he promised to send me. back upon the understanding of the palm kernels,, shea butter, and ivory. and so on.—The principal ingredients the people that Rome is the .great As one ascends the Niger, the air wisest, and mightily entangle and The palm oil of trade in Africa js ! yeTTdiiUn skulls and bones of ptculjai enemy.of France, Victor Hugo as we becomes drier and more salubrious, pervert the judgment/' In the same obtained from the outside or husk'of birds and animals. On one Side -of all'know is famous for similar say thé people less barbarous; Moham way words act upon the moral faculty - the nut, by boiling. The kernel is the public square was the “Juju" ings. The people see the. parish medan influence is felt and seen by of man. Words juggle conscience iiUft then dried and forms the article of house. Near the front entrance was priests actively hostile to the Repub the abolition of human sacrifices and deciding that a wrong deed is right. export, j'alm kernel. The oil from the the raised altar where .hundreds of lic. At one |dace where there were other atrocities. At Lukiija, a dis W ord s -wh e edle conscience into judg- , kernels has to ’ be expressed by human victims had been offered. Now religiaus servieesas ¡»art of the cele tance of between 400 and 500 miles ing that a thing bearing a fair name •nachenery. Shea butter is made from that is abolished; but t^ey offer goats bration of the birth-day of the Re frpm the coast, and at- the confluence cannot be foul." Words cajole con and white fowl. Human skulls were public, a Protestant pastor was en the fruit of a tree. of the Binne, from the east, and the science into believing that an act At Asaba, about 200 miles from the K war va, from the west, the face of at the base of the altar, as they are gaged because they knew the priest i which is called merely an indiscretion coast, the land becomes moie elevated, the country it quite broken, some of also to be found in nearly every yard would not pray for a free country. cannot deserve severe censure. A “ Mount Victoria” reaching an alti- th; ’ ' » rising te 1,2O<> and 1,400 feet. or at everv door-step. They are con- One of the State -Secretaries said ¿SÌ? t «idereê e*c?Hent to -keep “ witch — Hen "E only gi-eat rivers convergè? | books The head-lines of a nowsjia- Onitsba, the Company spoken of have but it seems to be a point of the con away. They no longer put twins and years if laborers were sent note into , per chronicling the crime were, “ A “ factories," aAthe trading stations are verging ot various tribes and tongues. their mother to death ; but on the the whitened harvest. Never since | ' Peculiar Misfortune.” A clerk ab called. At the fatter place a trader More than eight different tribes, birth of twins every one flees the the days of Louis XIV. till after the I sconded with the available funds of told me that he had often seen human »[leaking various dialects, are here re house. But they will send word to fall of Napoleon 11!. ha» there been his house. Pursued,. captured, and • flesh carried around ii. baskets for presented. The Hausais spoken the the missionaries, who send and have such an opportunity to push evangel- 1 returned, he teas spoken of as the sale Bishop .Crowther also informed most, and this has been reduced to them brought to the mission. They ical work as now. If the field is oc young gentleman who had " lately me that at a town ab if -even miles writing. The people arc friendly and have a practice of- confining young cupied France may liecumo the center met with an accident. ” A member of distant they usually bad to guard the hospitable to strangers, and many girls of eleven or twelve to the house of a grand work not only for herself, a legislature declared he had been 2grayes six or seven days, to prevent bay.i lnrg<. hPrds <>f cattle, goats, etc. for two or three years, and some have but for Europe. In other days she I offered “ five hundred /soso/is for his the dead being taken for food. The Horses, too, thrive ;• but are noT’Br been kept longer, and forcing them to furnished more martyrs than all the vote.’’ When stealing books is called people of a town never eat any of numerous . as further up thè river. eat, eat, till the poor things/wilh their "real of the surrounding countries On a “peculiar misfortune,” absconding their own townspeople. Here the The Binne, or Tchad da, as it is usually bodies chalked, to prevent perspira her soil the terrible tide- of Saracenic and a deserved arrest “ meeting with British consul, the Hon. H E. Hewett, down on our school maps, but called tion, just become one stupid heap of invasion was arrested by Charles an accident, ’’ and a bribe a “ reason," ■whom I met on the river, tried to Binne here, was ascended last year to fat. Many die in the process of fat Martel at the battle of Tours. That the conscience is liable to lie deceived. persuade them to abolish the practice the distance of 6<X> miles by Mr. Ash tening. They,are not considered mar battle was only a type of one now At the base and frivolous court of of burying the living with the dead, croft, in the Henry Fean, the C M riageable u'X£jfr*\ifattened.’ —N. Y. waging there under the Prince of Louis XIV. gambling was hardly lees Peace. Fiance helped our country in a» a case had occurred but a few days S.’s steamer. They went to within IndrpfmUnt. common than eating. Ladies took a the struggle for civil and leligious before ol three persona being buried three and a half days' journey by hand at cards ; but they were some- —A young Hindoo woman died freedom, and we siiuuld be more than ■with a free man, who had died—two canoe to the confluence of the Mayo whaf^trupiilous about receiving the Buried alive with him to wait on him Kebbi with the Binne. ‘That river is two years ago whom English critics willing to make return by financial stakes won. in the open way of the praise in extravagant terms. Though aid to her present need. Very likely whither he was going; the other, supposed to receive the great hulk of uun. As s<M>n;as a game closed the killed first, a*. a sacrifice, “ JT you its watqrs from the overflow of the at her death-she was only twenty-two future generations in the land of the pay us, we will give it up,” »aid the Sharj. in some such way, perhaps, as years old, yet the Saturday Jtevievj Puritans would thus at the same time -yrmner handed over her stakes "to a- head man. “ How much do you the Amazon receives, sometimes, water had pronounced her *’ the most prom be greatly lienefitted. Thus may we friend, who would in due time repay want asked the consul, “ Three from the Orinoco. If so, the heart of ; ising living woman of letters.” It strengthen the hands ot those we are her with a similar gift. The arrange bullocks." “ N«,” he replied ; M.ru Africa can be reached by direct water compared her to George Eliot, who, at likely to sorely need a-alli- s in future ment was called an “ interchange of not pay you anything to induce you communication. In all this distance twenty, had only written a few essays; struggles with the Harlot of the Seven winnings." and by the name the con to do right.” While there, he tried to no trading post, nor even a mission with "George Sand, who at that age, Hill City. Many interesting incid -n’s science of the fair gambler was •settle an old feud that h>. ! isted ten [ station; yet it is quite easy of access had written nothing; with Madame and facts were cited to show the iq> I quieted Is not conscience duller to years between two chip’« '’..ahi and ■ and, except in some low places by the de Stael, who at the same age, was ness of France for evangelization I l>< sin by calling the vices of youth the i- sowing of wild oats ? Is not con Odoo. Ogam said it e.m * -e settled river, is comparatively healthy. At known only as a brilliant talker; speaker had preached in many with Mrs. Browning, who, was, at and towns, and only once, at Dyon science sealed to drunkenness by re was : h is but in one way, i .1 ’ Egga, on the west side of the Niger, twenty, only a promising writer. hail there l>een disturbance. Thi- \ cognizing death by delirum t re me nt brother, who had left him.and joined , i cattle and horses are numerous, also _ Odoo, must be killed. The consul1 “ This Hindoo girl, at twenty, had was by members of a Catholic club as death by heart disease ? Is not turkeys; ducks, even the vegetables naked if his brother would leave his we are accustomed .to seeing in not only done good work, but had sent there for that purpose; and by conscience made callous as to the done an immense quithtity of it, and his pleading in their behalf were the sacredness of human life by styling a country and go to some other and live, I America. Here the Mohammedans in four languages.” She wrote. in whether that would satisfy him To I populace prevented from punishing ttn »flair of honor ? We have I are a targe body. , The English Wes- this he consented; but the brother leyans have begun a work at this English and French as well as in her the disturbers with personal violence improved upon the Greeks. They . . .1 4 .s 1 4. 1 nainAil a nonoral aknlUl«« .l.L.a 1__ hative tongue, and had translated At ’ could not bd induced'to go. He was j another place the people requested named a general abolition of debt by point; under very favorable circum- from the Sanscrit into English one of the us<*^f a fine Catholic church for statute “ a disburdening ordinance.” h free man, he said, and had done nothing worthy of death or banish- Htances- The man in charge is from the most famous religious books of the his service. The magistrates seconded We call it a “ readjustment,” and those the region of take Tchad. He is a <ueut; therefore he would not leave recaptured slave and is very highly I Hindoos. Her name was Toru Diutt, and the trustees cordially consented who thus put in order what was out and she showed more original powers to the request. On the bodies of of order, “ readjusters.” A prurient bis,town. AV'this, as in other places, spoken of for zeal and piety. One can they have an annual gj^ansing of the live at a very small outlay here. The combined with broad, thorough learn people washed ashore from a wreck off I curiosity loses its shamefulness when town, to prevent war and pestilence, highest [mint to which the Company's ing then-any native with whom the the coast near Cherbourg, were proofs it is known as the desire for knowl etc. It consist» in i <e 'feet and steamers run is Rabba, a distance of English have come in contact. She that some were Papists and some edge. A slander is robbed of its died early, a victim to excessive men .jfrotestant The priest declined to sting when it is called, as it frequently hands of a girl, l-"> or 10 years oil, about 900 miles from the coast. tal work. conduct a union funeral-service and I is, taie frank ««[u'ession of opinion (ia»sing a rope under her arms, and about one's neighbor. Stock gambling Oct. 21st found me back at Bonny. dragging her all through aud around —If a newspaper should contain all the people united in inviting a -Bro- approaches the line of legitimate busi- When there, and if a steamer is in, testant pastor to officiate. The pre I ness when it is recognized as specula the town, and then to tlm river, where one must take passage, no matter the things that all its readers want it sent works aim : 1st, to strengthen tion. By calling the impure pure, and they take her. in a canoe to the whether outward or homeward to print; it would have to be bigger the Huguenot church; 2d, to start the pure impure, the shameful respect middle of the river and throw her in, bound, as there are no convenient than a bed-spread. If it should leave new churches. It is in the form of a able, and the respectable shameful, giving her two or three smart blows. stopping places. I found the Nubia, out ;J1 that each of its readers dees the wrong right, and the right wrong, Home Mission Society. Evangelists Twins are taken out and thrown into the conscience is deceived.— S. which had to make her trip to O'd not wish to read, it would be blank take theatres in which to hold mect- I Timet. «the bush; but, unlike other places Calabar and down to Victoria before paper. Jurther south, they do not kill the BY NUM MABY A. HUB*, Of the Liberian Methodist Mission.