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Title: Tramps round the Mountains of the Moon and through the back gate of the Congo State by T. Broadwood Johnson. With an introd. by T.F. Victor Buxton
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, T. Broadwood
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Publisher: London T.F. Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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w> O < -a 5 TRANSFORMED LIVES 303 hope that, as in the case of the disappearance of small-pox as an epidemic in this country since the discoveryof vaccination, so a true remedy may be found for thecombating of this scourge of sleeping-sickness ; andwe may well pray that the dark forecast of its sweepingdown from Uganda as a desolating blight over thewhole of South Africa may be averted. The trouble has revealed, in the desertion of friends,how heartless the heathen may become when leftalone, but it has brought out also some bright con-trasts. A Muganda woman named Rebeka came tothe missionaries one day in grave trouble over theunenlightenment of women in an infected region andasked that she might be sent there to tell them aboutChrist. The danger was explained, and she was wellaware of it, but still she pressed her offer, and acompanion of like mind was found to go with her.Lovingly they worked away to tell the people of thelove of Him who had prompted them to come, andthen Rebe

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