[THE "WHITE MOTHER" OF DARKEST AFRICA:
MARY SLESSOR]
I am ready to go anywhere, provided it be forward.
David Livingstone.
God can't give His best till we have given ours!
Mary Slessor.
THE "WHITE MOTHER" OF DARKEST AFRICA
AMONG all the weavers in the great factory at Dundee there was no girl more deft and skilful than Mary Slessor. She was only eleven when she had to help shoulder the cares of the household and share with the frail mother the task of earning bread for the hungry children. For the little family was worse than fatherless. The man who had once been a thrifty, self-respecting shoemaker had become a slave to drink; and his life was a burden to himself and to those who were nearest and dearest to him.