Yes, the future of Africa, and, indeed, of the whole world of heathenism, lies with the young hearts who are now dreaming dreams of what they are going to do in the days to come. They will, by and by, be the pioneers and workers in the dark lands across the seas. It is to them that Jesus is looking to bring about the time when the whole earth will be filled with His light and love and peace.
Every one, of course, cannot work in the Mission field, and you do not require to go there to be a missionary. Wherever you may be, whatever you may do, you can always be a missionary and fight as valiantly as Miss Slessor did against sin and wrong-doing. You may not find your task easy. Our heroine did not find hers easy. You may meet as many difficulties as Christian did on his pilgrim way, and your dreams may be laughed at and scorned, but if you trust Jesus and persevere, you will come out all right in the end.
Dream your dreams then, boys and girls, brave ones, lovely ones, but as you grow up be sure and do your best to turn them into realities, for it is only those that come true that are making life better and sweeter and shaping the world into beauty.
Dan.
INDEX
Adam, Miss, [111]
Akpap, [108]
Alice, [110] , [129] , [181] , [200]
Anderson, Mr. and Mrs., [25] , [26] , [27]
Annie, [53] , [99] , [130] , [176] , [181] , [200]
Arnot, Mrs. (Miss Young), [154] , [204]
Arochuku, [123] , [126] , [135] , [146]
Aros, [122]
Bowes, Mr., [192]
Box from home, [102]
Chapman, Mr., [140]
Cook, Miss, [172]
Court at Ekenge, [88] ;
at Akpap, [117] , [139] ;
at Ikotobong, [148]
Creek Town, [42] , [95]
Dan, [130] , [153] , [181] , [206]
David Williamson, the, [101]
Diary, extracts from, [186]
Duke Town, [25]
Edem, chief of Ekenge, [54] , [59] , [60] , [71] , [76] , [79] , [93] , (death) [109]
Edisbury, Mr. and Mrs., [173]
Egbo, [33] , [34] , [76]
Egerton, Sir W., [157]
Ekenge, [49] , [84]
Eme Ete, [55] , [75] , [77] , [85] , [93] , [99] , (death) [178]
Enyong Creek, [120] , [127] , [134] , [164]
Eseré bean, [73] , [77]
Esien, [127]
Fuller, Mammy, [201]
Goldie, Mr. and Mrs., letter to grand-niece, [193]
Gray, Happy, [111] , [195]
Hippos, [23] , [125] , [165] , [167]
Hogg, Miss, [40]
Home for women and children, [160] , [204]
Hope-Waddell Institution, [84]
Ibibio, [122]
Ikotobong, [144]
Ikpe, [162] , [165] , [204]
Itu, [127]
Iye, [94] , [96]
Janie, [32] , [39] , [40] , [42] , [53] , [83] , [96] , [98] , [102] , [106] , [111] , (portrait) [119] ,
[129] , [153] , [176] , [177] , [200]
Janie (sister), [41] , [42]
King Eyo, [35] , [45] , [47] , [51] , [67] , [100]
Leopards, [156] , [161] , (picture) [162] , [178]
Livingstone, Dr., [10] , [19] , [88]
Long juju, [123] , [126]
Lugard, Sir F., [179]
M'Crindle, Mrs., [111]
Macdonald, Sir C., [107]
Macgregor, Mr. and Mrs., [158] , [202]
Mamie (Robertson), [158]
Mana, [98] , [127] , [128]
Mary, [92] , [98] , [111] , [113] , [129] , [181]
Odoro Ikpe, [183] , [204]
Oil ordeal, [58]
Okoyong, [46] , [89] , [118] , [177]
Old Town, [31]
Onoyom, chief, [136] , [141]
Orr, Christine G. M., [170] , [192] , [193] , [195] , [202]
Ovens, Mr., [68] , [69] , [108]
Peacock, Miss, [41] , [158] , [200]
Ratcliffe (Edisbury), [173] -[181] , [192] , [201]
Scott, Mrs., Bonkle, [153]
Silver Cross, award of, [180]
Slessor, Mary, baptism, [1] ;
as a child, [5] ;
conversion, [5] ;
enters factory, [6] ;
father's death, [9] ;
study, [11] ;
teacher in Sunday School, [12] ;
offers for Calabar, [20] ;
leaves for Calabar, [22] ;
poem, [26] ;
first furlough, [29] ;
at Old Town, [31] ;
river journey, [35] ;
second furlough, [40] ;
in Devonshire, [41] ;
at Creek Town, [42] ;
goes to Okoyong, [47] ;
settles at Ekenge, [53] ;
builds a hut, [63] ;
and church, [65] ;
third furlough, [83] ;
Agent for the Government, [88] ;
care of children, [90] ;
removes to Akpap, [108] ;
fourth furlough, [110] ;
adventure with hippo, [125] ;
visits Itu, [127] ;
at Arochuku, [134] ;
settles at Itu, [140] ;
rides a bicycle, [144] ;
at Ikotobong, [144] ;
made Vice-President of Native Court, [147] ;
fifth furlough, [153] ;
goes to Ikpe, [164] ;
visit to Canary Islands, [172] ;
revisits Okoyong, [177] ;
awarded Royal Medal, [180] ;
at Odoro Ikpe, [183] ;
illness and death, [199]
Slessor, Mr., [2] , [4] , [6] , [8]
Slessor, Mrs., [2] , [3] , [6] , [8] , [10] , [18] , [20] , [39] , [42]
Smallpox, [109]
Susie, [95]
Thomson, Mr., his scheme, [23] , [152]
Twins, [28] , [32] , [43] , [93] , [94] , [96] , [98]
Use, [140] , [152] , [156] , [161] , [167] , [199]
War, the, [198]
Whitie, [130] , [200]
Wilkie, Mr. and Mrs., [158]
Wilson, Miss Bessie, [41]
Wishart Church, (picture) [2] , [12]
Wright, Miss, [41] , [129] , [133]
Young, Miss (Mrs. Arnot), [154] , [204]
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