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Under the Southern Cross - Or, a Woman's Life Work for Africa (Paperback)
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Under the Southern Cross - Or, a Woman's Life Work for Africa (Paperback)
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The 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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