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From a Missionary to Africa Apostolic Faith, Volume

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1, September 1906 Brother S.

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J.

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Meade, who was sent to Africa by Bishop

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Taylor in 1885, has been attending the meetings

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for several weeks.

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He has the following to say of God's

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dealings him.

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My heart praises God as I trace the

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leadings of his blessed spirit in the past

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quarter of a century when I first sought

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to know and do his blessed will.

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My call to Africa in 1884, the blessed

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thought of going out in his name, so

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full of comfort and victory, and yet my

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call to my native land and civilization is

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more wonderful and blessed.

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The getting down in quietness in the presence

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of the Holy Spirit and letting him teach

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and show me what he would have me

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know of his power and omnipresence.

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I found it so true he is all

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love and in him is no darkness at

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all.

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My soul groans out this morning for the

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Holy Spirit to have perfect control of his

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temple.

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We often hinder the blessed wooing and power

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of his love by cross currents of our

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human mind and thought.

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May God help us to be little in

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our own eyes, not over anxious to serve

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much, but to love him with all our

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heart, mind, and strength.

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It is the simplicity of his love in

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our hearts that does the work among the

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heathen.

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The dear children of Ham are stretching out

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their hands for the love that is manifested

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in the sons of God.

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Often tears fill my eyes as I think

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of their simplicity and kindness to us in

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the years of our residence among them.

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One time while going down to our annual

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conference 100 miles from where I was situated

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at Malangay, we often met with a slave

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woman with whom we lodged nights, who showed

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us much kindness.

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She would listen to the story of the

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Lamb of God who taketh away the sin

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of the world and say, tell it to

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me again.

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Then I would go over it again and

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she would say, tell it once more.

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Then she said, tell it to me on

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my fingers.

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I said to her, hold up your hand.

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I bent down her first finger and said,

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that means that God's son has died for

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you.

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Shed his blood for your sins.

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Now bend down the second finger.

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That is, if you believe it, he will

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take you to his home where is no

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death, nor crying, whippings, nor pain.

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Now bend down the third finger.

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That is, if you do not believe, you

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will be obliged to live in a land

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of sorrow, pain and death and crying forever

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and ever.

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She repeated it over and over again and

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we could see the truth getting into her

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heart.

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We lost sight of her for a long

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time.

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Her village was burned up, her people moved

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away and she had gone out of our

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mind.

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One day there was a commotion at the

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entrance of the compound at the mission.

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I saw the same slave woman running into

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the yard, leading a little boy by the

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hand.

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I did not know her at first and

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she cried out, don't you know me?

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I remembered my lesson on my fingers and

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she repeated it over to me and said,

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now I know what you said about God's

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son is true.

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See my boy, as she pulled him by

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one hand.

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He was dying with smallpox and I asked

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the same Jesus to make him well and

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he did.

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Praise God.

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She may have preached the fundamental truth of

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the gospel to more souls in Africa than

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myself.

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My brother, if our love and faith were

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but more simple to take God at his

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word, our life would be full of sunshine

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and it would lighten and brighten up the

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dark places that sin has caused on God's

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beautiful earth.

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God called brother Mead and wife from the

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central part of Africa to Los Angeles to

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get their Pentecost.

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They recognize some of the languages spoken as

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being dialects of Africa.

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When God has fully equipped them, they will

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return to the labor of love.