The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 10, October, 1881 — John Shaqi
The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 10, October, 1881Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 10, October, 1881
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
He closed a very successful school session here the first of July. He
went out north of Paris, on Red River, to teach. The water and climate
did not agree with him. He made out to teach one month and a few days
by hard struggle, and came up Friday before last, looking like the very
shadow of death, conducted Sunday-school on Sunday, and was here to
preaching that night. Two o’clock Sunday night he started back to his
school, notwithstanding he was warned not to return. He reached there
through hard struggle, and was there from Tuesday to Friday, trying to
get some conveyance to bring him home. On Friday, August 19, he heard
of a wagon that was coming in, so he walked two miles from the place
where he was boarding, to take passage, which walk was too exhausting
for his already diseased frame. Thus he had to come in a rough wagon
in all of Friday’s scorching sun, a distance of some twenty-one or
twenty-two miles, with frequent fainting spells. He reached here Friday
afternoon at 6 o’clock, where he had the best attention shown him both
by his friends and physician. He was not confined to the bed until
Monday night.
He had not the least fear of dying. He said: “Don’t fret for me; but I
want you all to meet me in Heaven. I am going to that beautiful land of
rest to live with Jesus. ‘There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn
from Immanuel’s veins,’” etc. He described the kind of coffin he wished
to be buried in. He was the most faithful Christian I ever saw. We have
lost a noble Christian worker.
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AFRICA.
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We have the following information relating to the death of Mr. Kemp at
the Mendi Mission, from Rev. J. M. Williams, missionary at Kaw Mendi.
Mr. Williams’ long experience in Africa has qualified his heart and
mind to sympathize most fully with the afflicted. He is a colored man,
born in British Guiana, South America, and has rendered much good
service to the cause of missions during the past sixteen years.
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