Under the Southern Cross: Or, a Woman's Life Work for AfricaThe special work to which I had been appointed at Fair View was the school work; although my instructions given by Superintendent Roberts on the eve of my departure for Africa gave full liberty to evangelize as well as to teach. My manual read something like this: "Do not be satisfied to be merely a school teacher. Be an evangelist. Go out to the kraals, preaching as you go. Make the salvation of souls your one and only business." -from "Chapter XIII: My School" The missionary work of Westerners in Africa is long and storied-here's another tale of the long-term attempts to convert a continent. Privately published, this is one woman's account of her Christian work in Zulu country, from her childhood-she was born in 1863-on farms in Iowa and Kansas, where she had a youthful brush with death that led to her conversion to an active Christianity, to her return home after long years doing the Lord's work. The time in between is fraught with culture shock: her difficulties in learning the Zulu language, her disdain for Zulu tradition and mythology, even a particular scorn for the food she found unpalatable. Stolid and unbending, this is a curious document of a less enlightened time, a firsthand look at the mindset of a bygone time. |
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... early hopes ! A tiny rivulet , unnoticed before , has trickled under his salt and wasted all but one bag . His task with Omar is to fill great stone jars with rose petals , gathered ' while the dew is still on the roses . ' All through ...
... early hopes ! A tiny rivulet , unnoticed before , has trickled under his salt and wasted all but one bag . His task with Omar is to fill great stone jars with rose petals , gathered ' while the dew is still on the roses . ' All through ...
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... early party of missionaries to Inhambane , about 1888 , four years before my sailing . Mention is made of this missionary company , including my old - time school friend , Ida Heffner , and my asscciate at Fair View , Grace Allen . My ...
... early party of missionaries to Inhambane , about 1888 , four years before my sailing . Mention is made of this missionary company , including my old - time school friend , Ida Heffner , and my asscciate at Fair View , Grace Allen . My ...
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... early years of her life . Perhaps the only thing worthy of recording is the fact that she was the least rugged and promising of all the children . From my earliest recollection , I was subject to fits , and up to eight or ten years of ...
... early years of her life . Perhaps the only thing worthy of recording is the fact that she was the least rugged and promising of all the children . From my earliest recollection , I was subject to fits , and up to eight or ten years of ...
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... earliest teaching on holiness . The more I heard , the more convinced I became that this is a Bible doctrine ; but former teaching and deep - rooted prejudice , not only on my own part , but also in family and friends , kept me for some ...
... earliest teaching on holiness . The more I heard , the more convinced I became that this is a Bible doctrine ; but former teaching and deep - rooted prejudice , not only on my own part , but also in family and friends , kept me for some ...
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... early , habit- ually at three or four o'clock , to compete with those who had all their time for study ; and to study in a cold room , to save the expense of fuel . Month after month , and year after year , this was continued ...
... early , habit- ually at three or four o'clock , to compete with those who had all their time for study ; and to study in a cold room , to save the expense of fuel . Month after month , and year after year , this was continued ...
Contents
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Getting at My Life Work | 30 |
The Voyage and Landing | 39 |
First Experience | 53 |
Our African Neighbors | 64 |
NatalThe Land | 79 |
Spying Out the Land and Settling | 271 |
Again at Work | 280 |
Progressing Slowly | 288 |
Itinerating | 294 |
A Study of Inhambane Natives | 300 |
A Further Study of Inhambane Natives | 316 |
Day by Day | 325 |
Life and Death | 337 |
HistoricalChalka | 89 |
Customs Superstitions and Beliefs | 99 |
Pouring on Cold Water | 123 |
Varied Experiences | 132 |
My School | 149 |
Two Weddings | 168 |
Our Work at Bethany | 176 |
Incidentals | 186 |
Further Developments | 199 |
A Zulu Wedding | 217 |
Summary of One Years Work at Bethany | 229 |
Clouds and Sunshine | 241 |
CHAPTER PAGE XXI A Trip to Zululand | 250 |
Strange Providences | 264 |
Resignation | 348 |
In the Highways and Hedges | 353 |
Thinning Out the Ranks | 370 |
Looking Toward Home | 377 |
My Final Tour | 385 |
Man Proposes God Disposes | 397 |
Sweeping Through the Gates | 401 |
Farewell to Inhambane | 408 |
Retrospective and Prospective | 413 |
Haviland Memorial Mission | 425 |
Readjustment | 433 |
Olivet Mission | 446 |
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