South and South Central Africa: A record of fifteen years' missionary labors among primitive peoplesDavidson, Hannah Frances
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South and South Central Africa: A record of fifteen years' missionary labors among primitive peoples
Davidson, Hannah Frances
Brethren in Christ Church -- Missions; Missions -- Rhodesia; Ndebele (African people); Tsonga (African people)
Preparing to Advance--Broken Wagon--Journey to
Kalomo--Interviewing Officials--Difficulties in the
Way--Permission to Proceed--Macha, 252
CHAPTER III.
Why Selected--Living on the Veldt--First Huts--Spiritual
Duties--Learning an Unwritten Language--First
Christmas, 263
CHAPTER IV.
Trying to Begin School--Chief Brings His Son--Industrial
Work--School Books--Wild Animals--Threatened
Uprising--Mr. M. Taylor Arrives, 1907--White
Ants--Visit to Nanzela, 277
CHAPTER V.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wenger Arrive, 1908--Need of
Good Houses--Making Brick--Tsetse Fly--Brother
Taylor's Encounter with Lions, 295
CHAPTER VI.
School Work--English--Evangelistic Work--Brother
Taylor Among the Baila--Building a House--Elder
Steigerwald and Brother Doner Go North--Visit
of Elders J. N. Engle and J. Sheets--Marriage--First
Baptism, 306
CHAPTER VII.
Furlough--Encounter with Elephant--Misses E. Engle
and Mary Heisey Visit Macha--Preparing the New
Testament--Out-schools--Murder of Chief--Taylors
or Furlough--Death of Semani, 323
CHAPTER VIII.
Baby Ruth--Building Church--Training Natives--The
Year's Work--Brother Taylor Itinerating--Elder
Steigerwald's Visit, 343
CHAPTER IX.
New Books--Native Problems--Studying the Native
Character--Child Life--Natives Resourceful--Dark
Side of Native Character, 355
CHAPTER X.
Are They Lazy?--Three Natives--Home Training--Charlie--
Are They Provident?--Naturalists--Attitude Toward
Whites--Generosity of Some--Kraal-visiting, 372
CHAPTER XI.
Ideas of God--Native Prophetesses--Rainmakers--Death
and Burial--Digging a Grave--Sacrifice of
Animals--Beer-wailings--Evil Spirits, 387
CHAPTER XII.
Tribal Mark--Decorating the Body--Kinship--Betrothal
and Marriage--The Bride--Hindrances to Mission
Work--Compared to the Matabele--Salutations, 402
CHAPTER XIII.
Ruth's Sickness--Medical Work--A Visit Among the
People--Remember the Aged--David Goes to School--Taylors
Go to America, 1913--Wenger's Return--Outpouring
of the Spirit--Miss E. Engle and Mr.
L. B. Steckley Come to Macha--First Women Baptized, 418
CHAPTER XIV.
Two Objects Paramount--Need of Native Evangelists--Visit
to Out-schools--Mianda--Impongo--Kabanzi--Kabwe--Myeki--
Chilumbwe, 440
CHAPTER XV.
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