Under the Southern Cross: Or, a Woman's Life Work for AfricaCosimo, Inc., 1. dets 2005 - 464 pages 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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Contents
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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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Page 66 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not ; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works...
Page 367 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Page 199 - And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.
Page 338 - That oft before had filled or haunted me, And now returned with threefold strength again. The door I opened to my heavenly guest, And listened, for I thought I heard God's voice ; And, knowing whatsoe'er He sent was best, Dared neither to lament nor to rejoice. Then with a smile, that filled the house with light, " My errand is not Death, but Life," he said ; And, ere I answered, passing out of sight, On his celestial embassy he sped.
Page 29 - Henceforth then It matters not if storm or sunshine be My earthly lot, bitter or sweet my cup ; I only pray, " God fit me for the work ; God make me holy, and my spirit nerve For the stern hour of strife.
Page 24 - For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake ; 30 Having the same conflict "which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
Page 415 - For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.