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Identifier: christianheralds19unse (find matches)
Title: Christian herald and signs of our times
Year: 1896 (1890s)
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Publisher: (New York, The Christian Herald)
Contributing Library: Christian Herald Association
Digitizing Sponsor: Tisch Library, Tufts University

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ay hear and be willing that such a trial should take place. After this, she goes inside and asks the man to clap his hands and to say, zizwe (we hear.) Then the doctor proceeds: You have come concerning a sick girl. ^Yes (faintly), I hear you doctor. No, I do not mean that; but I mean to say you have come about your father. Yes (stronger), I hear you, doctor. Clap your hands, that I may hear, says the doctor. I am clapping them. Do you not come here because your mother is sick? Yes, yes (with emphasis), you are talking now. Here the man becomes excited. He claps his hands just as much as he can and tells the doctor to smell out the trouble. When the doctor touches upon what the man suspects, the latter jumps and claps his hands. This way the doctor finds out what will come pretty nearly what the man suspects and what will please him. If any one is sent to consult the doctor who can, with calmness, keep saving, yes, I hear you, doctor, in all that she says, the doctor will send him home, saying, he does
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MISSIONARY JOHN L. DUBE. not know how to do it. Your mother has been bewitched by a wizard. Yes, yes, mighty doctor. Do tell us who that person is. The spirits are telling me that he is a tall man with a ring in head. Yes (faintly), I hear. No, it is a woman. Yes, yes; you were right there. She is a short woman. Yes, yes (with emphasis). The doctor will give all the peculiarities she can think of to the satisfaction of the man. After the trial is over, the man goes home and tells the people about the wizard who is using charms against them and the people go to their chief and report this case, for which the one suspected hail to suffer a great deal. In the time of Chaka and Dingaan, and even Cetywayo such wizards suffered death. May we not hope that Christian mission: among the Zulus will be the means of stopping all these customs which tend t< degrade people? Among some of the mission stations we have seen good example of those who have given up all superstitions, and are living true Christian li

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