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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... took up a homestead in Western Kansas , and in the spring of 1874 , moved his family thither . Here for several years our home was a " Kansas dugout , " of two large rooms . The country was new and our neighbors all lived in similar ...
... took up a homestead in Western Kansas , and in the spring of 1874 , moved his family thither . Here for several years our home was a " Kansas dugout , " of two large rooms . The country was new and our neighbors all lived in similar ...
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... took place for days is a perfect blank in my memory . But from my mother's account , I know that every remedy that could be heard of was tried , crushed raw onions ; warm milk , fresh from the cow ; the flesh of a chicken , yet ...
... took place for days is a perfect blank in my memory . But from my mother's account , I know that every remedy that could be heard of was tried , crushed raw onions ; warm milk , fresh from the cow ; the flesh of a chicken , yet ...
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... took a new coloring , com- bining with my former ambition for the mental improve- ment of my pupils , a deep interest in their spiritual welfare . At normals , also , I felt called upon to stand out as a witness for Christ , at least by ...
... took a new coloring , com- bining with my former ambition for the mental improve- ment of my pupils , a deep interest in their spiritual welfare . At normals , also , I felt called upon to stand out as a witness for Christ , at least by ...
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... . But this call to service , at first , took no more definite form than leading class or prayer meeting , and giving Spirit- filed testimonies and exhortations , whenever and wherever opportunity offered A WOMAN'S LIFE WORK FOR AFRICA 23.
... . But this call to service , at first , took no more definite form than leading class or prayer meeting , and giving Spirit- filed testimonies and exhortations , whenever and wherever opportunity offered A WOMAN'S LIFE WORK FOR AFRICA 23.
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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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