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Title: Life and light for woman
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Woman's Board of Missions
Subjects: Congregational churches
Publisher: (Boston : Woman's Boards of Missions
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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^, which had been trampled uponby a wild and infuriated cow. Dear Hanna ! I have only pleasant and thankful thoughts of her. I wish3ou could see her in church. You would smile, I am sure, as we wereoblio-ed to do sometimes. She is so lame she likes best to sit on a mat nearthe pulpit. She usually comes in neatly dressed in black, bringing two orthree of her grandchildren. Their father was nearly grown when his motherbecame a Christian, He married a heathen wife, and although he dresses ina civilized wav and has his children dress, she still wears her native costume.They come to church sometimes, and we trust will yet both become Christians,He often goes to work in an English town. Once a lady there gave himsome old straw bonnets, trimmed with black velvet. For some 3ears thesebonnets have done service on the little boys head as well as on the girls,when they come to church. They fit best upside down, so they are often 1899-) HARVEST SHEAVES. 439
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440 JLIFE AND LIGHT. ( Octobery \worn in that way. When the children get in, Hanna is careful to see that \those who are not old enough to sit quietly on a seat are comfortably seatedon her mat. Then she gives them an orange or a bit of bread to eat. Ifthey get a little restless, she carefully unfolds from a paper two or threegood-sized Christmas cards. She fans herself a little with one, then passesthem on to the cliildren. They fan and doze over them, until the smallerones lie down on the mat and go to sleep. Hanna is greatly beloved and respected by all the people. For nearlytwo years she has done much good by going from kraal to kraal holdingmeetings with the women. On the station, in the church, in business meet-ings, she is respected as if she were one of the head men,— an unusual thingin that country. Many blessings liave come to Esidumbini through herpraj^ers ; the prayers of one who had never learned to trust God and prayto him until she was a middle-aged woman. Her husband

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