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 S UNDAY, June 2d, 1912, was a 
 Big Sunday at Elat. The preced¬ 
 ing week the evangelists (19) 
 returned from their trips, bringing their 
 “sheaves” with them. During that week 
 more than seventeen hundred confessed 
 Christ. Sunrise prayer meetings were held 
 where crowds gathered with eager inter¬ 
 est, often two or three praying at once : 
 meetings at 10 o’clock A. M., and 4 
 P. M. Sunday morning 5,270 people 
 assembled for a three hours’ service where 
 170 adults and 23 babes were baptized. 
 In the afternoon another three hourservice 
 where about 700 partook of the Sacra¬ 
 ment. That day 50 more confessed Christ 
 and 508 were promoted to the “Nsamba” 
 or second year class, from which they are 
 eligible to church membership in a year. 
 Many of the school boys confessed, but 
 39 poor people who had been overcome 
 by temptation were suspended. 
 
*THE NEW DAY IN KAMERUN 
 
 A New Day has dawned in Kamerun. Twenty- 
 five years ago the first station in Kamerun was 
 occupied by two missionaries. To-day there are 
 five stations, in which there are 51 missionaries; 
 2,261 pupils in station schools, and 5,332 in the 
 village schools, a total of 7,593 under instruction; 
 a church membership of 4,309, and more than 
 4,431 catechumens or those under instruction, 
 ready to be received into the Church in due time. 
 The amount of money raised on the field for all 
 purposes for the year ending March 30th, 1912, 
 the Seventy-fifth Anniversary year of the Board, 
 was $11,107. The average wage is not over ten 
 cents a day. Every church in the entire district 
 is self-supporting. The village schools are en¬ 
 tirely self-supporting, while the people contribute 
 largely to the support of the station schools. 
 The New Day has dawned in Kamerun. 
 
 The New Day in Kamerun is signalized by a 
 New Evangelism. 
 
 In a late number of the “Bulu News”—the 
 mimeographed periodical, the only newspaper in 
 all Bulu land, is the statement: 
 
 “Many men are thinking of the Gospel in 
 these days. They want to be Christians but 
 do not know what to do about their many 
 
 ♦rtiennan Kamerun on the west coast of Africa 
 extends from British Nigeria on the north to 
 the Frencli Congo on the south, covering some 
 20 degrees of latitude and embracing 191,130 sq. 
 miles. The northern half is occupied by tbe 
 Basle Mission. The only Protestant denomina¬ 
 tion at work in the southern half is the Presby¬ 
 terian Board of Foreign Missions. The jiart of 
 the Kamerun occupied by our West Africa Mis¬ 
 sion extends eastward from Batanga on the coast, 
 some 186 miles to Motet, the furthest station, 
 and embraces tbe stations of Batanga, occupied 
 in 1885; Ffulen, 1893; Elat, 1895; MacLean, 
 ISP^nhd Mctet, 1909.1 
 
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wives. Since the Word came to Bulu, the 
 leading men have not listened to it as they 
 are now doing these days. It is not one 
 place alone, but starting at the coast and 
 extending into the interior.” 
 
 “Herr Johnston came from the coast the 
 other day, and when he reached Nko’olon, 
 Sabata, the headman, started to talk. He 
 had talked of these things many times in 
 the past. Now he says he will do.” 
 
 “At another town the headman said he 
 would walk through the town with Herr 
 Johnston. Before they parted the head¬ 
 man said he had fought the Word of God 
 for years; now he wanted to be told what 
 to do to be saved.” 
 
 This man has thirty-one wives; the question of 
 disposing of them in a proper way is no small 
 matter. It affects the entire social structure of 
 the native society. 
 
 The new evangelism affects all classes, the 
 young as well as the old, women and girls as 
 well as men and boys. “No one can realize,” 
 writes a worker in the Kamerun field, “what the 
 ministry of the Spirit of God in these young lives 
 means in connection with the salvation of people 
 from sin. Not even the missionaries can know 
 fully, but we see evidences on every hand that 
 the children even now are the ones through whom 
 God is speaking to many a father and mother, 
 many a brother and sister. When you see them, 
 only ten or twelve years of age, conducting morn¬ 
 ing prayers in their home villages, and telling the 
 Word of Life they had heard at school with all 
 the liberty of a grown-up, you know that God 
 takes the weak things to confound the mighty. 
 There is a wide-open door and a pressing need.” 
 
 The New Evangelism manifests itself in many 
 ways. Not the least is the eagerness of the peo¬ 
 ple to attend the services on the Sunday and to 
 hear the Word of God. On a single Sunday in 
 October, 1911, there were present at the Elat 
 
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Church 4,650 persons. This number is unusual* 
 but it has been exceeded on special communion 
 Sundays. 
 
 “I was greatly pleased with Elat on arrival 
 here,” writes a newly appointed missionary, “and 
 that feeling has grown since that time. There 
 were over 2,500 people at service on Sunday. It 
 was a most inspiring sight. The large number of 
 people the day before clamoring for envelopes in 
 which to make their offerings would have fairly 
 alarmed a church treasurer in the home land. 
 My first work was to help count the offering. 
 There were 7,354 pieces of money, amounting to 
 358.65 marks. There is so much work to be 
 done here, so many opportunities that one can¬ 
 not find time to take advantage of them all.” 
 
 Elat is the largest station, but Batanga, Mac- 
 Lean and Efulen give evidence of the New Evan¬ 
 gelism as well. At Batanga the communion 
 seasons are marked by additions on confession 
 of faith, most of whom are from the Mabeya 
 tribe. A few years ago no missionary knew 
 the Mabeya language, and not one of the tribe 
 had been brought to Christ. In a district back 
 from the coast some six miles near the conflu¬ 
 ence of the Bongola and the Campo rivers, there 
 is a population of Mabeya people who are cut off 
 almost entirely from intercourse with other tribes. 
 A number of these have within two or three 
 years united with the church, and many more are 
 in the catechumen class. One of the Mabeya 
 headmen at his own volition erected a church 
 building in his town. The Sunday morning, when 
 the missionary preached in this church, built to 
 accommodate a hundred persons, there were 200 
 present and 50 about the door, unable to find 
 standing room inside. The work in the Batanga 
 district was never more promising than at the 
 present time. 
 
 On a Communion Sunday morning at MacLean 
 Memorial Station there were 1,900 present. The 
 next Sunday the number in attendance at Lam, 
 
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“Manse” belonging to Ubenje Church, an outstation of Batanga. Material and labor mostly contributed 
 
an outstation some 20 miles away, was 700. At 
 this latter service one of the most influential 
 head men of all that region signified his pur¬ 
 pose to identify himself with the Christian 
 Church. There are at this station 1,500 regular 
 envelope contributors; at Elat Station about 
 7,500. No small task to write the name of the 
 holder of each small bag or envelope, and at the 
 monthly offering to collect the gifts, count and 
 classify them, repair envelopes or bags that are 
 damaged, and see that all are returned to the 
 proper parties. 
 
 At Efulen Station at one communion season 
 2,252 were present. The preparatory services 
 commenced the middle of the week before, and 
 were well attended, while half of the Sunday au¬ 
 dience remained another day, for the Monday 
 meeting. Many who came from a long distance 
 desired to stay, but hastened home to care for 
 sick or hungry husbands or children. In com¬ 
 menting on this communion, a missionary writes: 
 “The interest here is not waning, and it rejoices 
 our hearts that so many are coming and keep on 
 coming. Very often we think of our less favored 
 friends in America and other foreign countries. 
 Surely we have the choicest vineyard in which 
 to work.” 
 
 Some idea of the growth of the work can be 
 gained from the necessity which has arisen of 
 establishing numerous outstations in the vicinity 
 of the main station. The church at Efulen, which 
 a few years ago could be handled by one man, 
 now requires a band of workers. Within a few 
 months there have been established two outposts 
 some twenty miles from Efulen. The church 
 building at one of these outposts. Alum, was 
 erected to accommodate 400 people by “sardining” 
 them. At the first monthly service held at Alum, 
 there were 1,282 persons present. The most in¬ 
 fluential headman of the district put away eight 
 wives as evidence of the sincerity of his pur¬ 
 pose to become a Christian. This is typical of 
 
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oiitstations around Elat and AlacLean and Metet 
 as well. At one of the outstations it was neces¬ 
 sary to remove the side walls of the building in 
 order to accommodate the great crowd. 
 
 It is not, however, at the main station or at 
 the outstations alone that the evangelistic work is 
 carried on. Schoolboy evangelists are sent to a 
 dozen different points easily reached in a few 
 hours’ walk from the station. These boys con¬ 
 duct weekly meetings. The young teachers are 
 first instructed by one of the missionaries. The 
 village schools are centres of evangelistic effort. 
 All the teachers in the village schools are Chris¬ 
 tians. The Word of God is taught daily, and on 
 Sunday the teacher holds a religious service. 
 These schools are recruiting places whence come 
 many of the people to the meetings at the out¬ 
 stations or the main stations. Decisions for 
 Christ are often made at these outposts. 
 
 One village school is situated 14.'j miles from 
 the main station. A group of six converts made 
 the journey from this school to the station in 
 order to be more fully instructed in the doctrine. 
 Little groups thus formed ask for the presence 
 of the missionary, and long tours are taken in 
 order to keep alive the flame already kindled in 
 some distant village. The Eton people, for exam¬ 
 ple, located 140 miles to the northeast of the 
 MacLean Station, were recently visited by one 
 of the missionaries. No sign of mission work 
 was visible in the entire region save that car¬ 
 riers who had heard the Word in rest houses or 
 at the mission station welcomed him as he jour¬ 
 neyed through their towns. Twelve miles from 
 the end of his tedious journey the missionary 
 was met by a group of Christians who evinced 
 great joy at his coming. A few days’ preaching 
 and teaching, a little work in clearing away the 
 forest and erecting a schoolhouse and dwellings 
 for helpers, and the missionary returns to the 
 station, leaving two faithful native assistants to 
 evangelize “the regions beyond.” 
 
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Class of Kvangelists being instructed at Klat 
 
From a village 85 miles southwest of Efulen, 
 a little band of praying ones sent a Macedonian 
 call. “To me,” writes the missionary who re¬ 
 sponded to this appeal, “it was such a joy to sit 
 down with these old men and women, and little 
 children, and to talk with them of the greatest 
 things in all the world, the things of Jesus 
 Christ. One old man seemed deeply touched. I 
 called the headman or chief of the town, who 
 was a Christian, and we three sat together and 
 the headman and I taught the old man just as 
 you would teach a child. We explained what it 
 was to follow Christ, then we taught him a 
 simple prayer. He was in dead earnest about 
 the matter. When Monday morning came many 
 gathered, eager to say farewell to those who were 
 to go on the long journey through forest and 
 river to the Mission Station. A little band ac¬ 
 companied us in order to attend the communion 
 service at Efulen the next Sunday. Four days 
 of hard walking with sore, tired feet was the 
 price which these grown-up children in faith paid 
 to attend preaching services at the station. I 
 wondered whether I would walk four days from 
 dawn to dark in order to listen to the preaching 
 of the Word, only four or five times. Who will 
 say that they are not dead in earnest about their 
 salvation?” 
 
 The New Evangelism in Africa is not afraid of 
 New Methods. 
 
 The Men and Religion Forward Movement in 
 America has created no little stir. It is of in¬ 
 terest to note that there is a Men and Religion 
 Movement in Kamerun. 
 
 “I want to tell you about the Men and Re¬ 
 ligion Forward Movement in Kamerun,” writes a 
 veteran missionary. “I ran off a few hundred 
 posters on the mimeograph, and had them placed 
 in the town. The meeting was well advertised. 
 Reserved seats for men. There were 800 of them 
 in a block. Counting young men and boys, 2,000. 
 The women were curious, and they came also. 
 
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so the congregation was over 4,000. Fifty gov¬ 
 ernment headmen were among the number. Evina 
 Minko, the biggest man in the country, who has 
 178 wives, was on the front seat. The meeting 
 seemed to give all the men a different concep¬ 
 tion of the gospel. They had had an idea that 
 the gospel was not for them, but for women and 
 children.” 
 
 The missionary did not rely solely upon the 
 preaching services, for he adds: “Last week I 
 stopped some ten miles from the beach and talked 
 with a headman whom I had been trying to per¬ 
 suade to become a Christian for some years. 
 Fifteen miles further on I stopped and had a 
 talk with another headman, the biggest one be¬ 
 tween Elat and the Beach. The next day I 
 talked with another headman, the son of an old 
 friend of mine who was the leader in the Bulu 
 uprising thirteen years ago. He told me he was 
 going to become a Christian.” 
 
 The Spirit of God is moving upon the hearts 
 of the men all over the Kamerun field. If we 
 ask for the explanation, we find it in the words 
 of one of the physicians in Kamerun: 
 
 “In my labors here the Spirit has blessed the 
 work of preaching the Gospel as well as giving 
 medicine to my patients. God has granted me 
 more fruits from my efforts during these months 
 since my furlough than in all the previous years. 
 This is due to personal work, and the personal 
 work is made effective because of an hour spent 
 in prayer and in study of the Word before oay- 
 light in the morning. The Gospel certainly gets 
 hold of these people. I have made a little vest 
 ‘Pocket Companion’ in Bulu, taking the verses 
 that fit these people and their needs, and I am 
 really surprised how no ‘Word of God shall be 
 void of power,’ and truly it is not.” 
 
 The New Day is characterized by a New 
 Society. 
 
 There is a new social order in Bulu land. 
 
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Thousands of the Africans in Kamerun have 
 been taught to read. The publication of the 
 “Bulu News” is looked forward to with great 
 interest. The "Bulu News,” insignificant as a 
 newspaper, reveals the new order, as instance 
 the following item ; 
 
 “The Mission has bought a big machine (saw¬ 
 mill) to cut boards. It is now at Kribi. Mr. 
 Hope went down to see to the landing of it. This 
 machine is very heavy, but when it is put to¬ 
 gether and a fire made in it and water put in, 
 then it can walk by itself. We hear the govern¬ 
 ment is afraid of the bridges, but we think that 
 if we put planks on the bridges they will be all 
 right.” 
 
 The fear of the government was well founded. 
 One of the bridges was not equal to the heavy 
 strain put upon it by the big machine. At break¬ 
 fast one morning the missionary physician at 
 Efulen received word: “We fell through the 
 bridge at kilometer 57 and Grieg is hurt—come 
 over as soon as possible.” 
 
 In a few moments surgical instruments, band¬ 
 ages and other articles needed in an emergency 
 case in a forest thirty miles from the nearest 
 point of civilization were all gathered together, 
 and the missionary, mounted on a motorcycle, 
 was speeding away toward the scene of the ac¬ 
 cident. The “hurt” was slight. The machine 
 was, however, in the l)Ottom of the river. By 
 skill and patience and hard work it was lifted 
 out of the water, but with many of the parts 
 missing. Said parts will have to be replaced from 
 America. Once in place at Elat, this “big ma¬ 
 chine” will prove a missionary indeed. 
 
 The industrial work has made great strides. 
 Every station has some form of industrial work, 
 but the main school is at Elat, where the car¬ 
 pentry, chair-making and tailoring classes have 
 produced wondrous economic and social changes. 
 The carpenters build all the dwelling houses, 
 schoolhouses and churches. In the shops they 
 
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The “I’ig Machine” — The accident that stopped it from coming up to Iflat, after about 35 miles had been 
 
 made. It is about 120 miles to Elat from the Coast. 
 
make the doors and windows, clothes presses, 
 cupboards, chairs, tables, and all kinds of furni¬ 
 ture. It takes six months to get articles from 
 America, and four from Europe. Freight is high; 
 finances low, so that the industrial workers are 
 kept busy. 
 
 The results are not merely economic. The 
 native sees the workman at the carpenter’s bench, 
 or lathe, or in the blacksmith shop, making the 
 sparks fly, or doing tinsmithing, or soldering a 
 broken spectacle rim, or repairing a broken pho¬ 
 nograph, or a hole in the tea kettle, and he gets 
 the idea that there is nothing a white man can¬ 
 not do. “Oh, white man, it is a very small thing 
 that you should cut a new glass for my watch 
 and make new hands for it. Its heart is well, it 
 walks all right inside, but there is nothing to show 
 on the outside!” 
 
 The mere material benefit conferred is the least 
 of the blessings. Industrious habits are formed. 
 It means a great deal for^these people—idle, in¬ 
 dolent, lazy—yesterday in the bush, to-day ap¬ 
 prenticing themselves for a three years’ term of 
 service, where punctuality, accuracy, persever¬ 
 ance and muscle are required. Meanwhile, the 
 Gospel is being taught them daily, and while ac¬ 
 quiring knowledge of the mechanical laws of the 
 universe, they are learning that the moral and 
 spiritual laws are equally potent and equally ben¬ 
 eficial when obeyed. 
 
 Agriculture is not neglected. “We have just 
 finished,” states a recent report of one of the 
 schools, “putting in large patches of peanuts and 
 corn. Last term of school we set out 100 pear 
 trees. Next week we will put in 40 more.” 
 
 The report from the newest station in the far 
 interior, Metet, states that “considerable ground 
 has been cleared near the building, and a large 
 part of it planted in peanuts. About 3,000 plan¬ 
 tains, 1,200 pineapples, and 100 pawpaws have 
 been set out, and several varieties of fruit trees. 
 There are 150 young pear trees in the nursery. 
 
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Soap is being made out of oil from the palms 
 on the station grounds.” All this in a section of 
 the Kamerun that two years ago was a wild 
 African jungle. 
 
 A new desire has been created by the mission¬ 
 ary. When the boys and men come to school 
 and you ask them why, they answer: “I want 
 to be a minister, a teacher, an interpreter for the 
 government, a postman, and the like.” Manual 
 labor they despise. The men and boys think 
 garden-making, cutting timber, and all manual 
 work belongs to women. It means much, there¬ 
 fore, when the new appetite has been created. 
 
 The demand is greater than the supply. Trad¬ 
 ers and government officials are clamoring for a 
 larger output. One trader, while paying 500 
 marks for chairs, said: “You ought to put fifty 
 more boys at this work. If you had fifty chairs 
 now I would buy them all.” The sub-governor of 
 Elat took home with him to Germany four of 
 the chairs made by the Bulu boys, in order to 
 exhibit them in Hamburg at the Colonial Expo¬ 
 sition. 
 
 The whole educational work is on a broad basis. 
 In addition to the industrial there is the training 
 of theological candidates and evangelists, and the 
 station and village schools for academic study. 
 The schools are not ideal. On the opening day 
 at the roll call it is necessary to check up ab¬ 
 sentees and collect tuition. “My mother died, 
 and I have no one to give me anything,” a stu¬ 
 dent will say, when asked for his tuition. An¬ 
 other : “I am still hunting, but I have not seen 
 it yet.” 
 
 When the roll call is over, there is a long line 
 of clothes, trousers, blankets which the doctor 
 must inspect for contagious disease. A plentiful 
 supply of ointment and vaseline is needed to deal 
 with the itch and the jiggers and various other 
 pests indigenous to life in Africa. No small 
 task in a large station school such as at Elat, 
 
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where in the hrst term of the year 1912 there 
 were registered over 1,200 pupils. 
 
 “Their general health,” writes the principal of 
 this great university (?), “has been good. In the 
 absence of a physician our amateurs have done 
 well. An impressive scene occurs twice a week 
 when each boarder is treated to a dose of quinine. 
 
 . . . The appearance of each boy squatting 
 
 down before the doctor, with open mouth to re¬ 
 ceive his dose, reminded one of the ‘Squeers’ 
 method. No doubt the absence of fever was 
 brought about by this elfective treatment.” 
 
 The school buildings are inadequate, and the 
 equipment is insufficient, and the curriculum is 
 not all that could be desired; but the aim of the 
 educational work is high and the results large. 
 At the MacLean Station the following definite 
 educational policy was adopted: 
 
 “We aim to put the Bible in the hands of the 
 people, train up workers for every branch of 
 our work to fit the people for the life they now 
 live and will live. We believe there ought to be 
 much more stress put upon the dignity of labor, 
 and especially more stress upon the training of 
 boys for efficient labor.” 
 
 To aid the pupils to attain a higher standard, 
 a clear statement of purpose is given to each 
 pupil, the opening paragraph of which is as fol¬ 
 lows : 
 
 “Because the American Mission has taken me 
 into its school, I promise that I will look upon 
 school as a place where people learn to live a 
 life that honors God.” 
 
 It is only within a few years that the Mission 
 has been able to keep any large number of wo¬ 
 men and girls in school. This is due largely to 
 the Bulu custom, which permitted the husband 
 or uncle or brother to sell the wife or daughter 
 or sister at will. These ancient customs are being 
 rapidly overthrown by government intervention 
 and by the development of public opinion. Wo¬ 
 men and girls are now coming in larger numbers 
 
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to the schools. The changed condition is well 
 illustrated in the following graphic description of 
 a girls’ school; 
 
 “We have here at Elat a motley bunch in the 
 girls’ dormitory. There are fifty of them, three 
 mothers with babes in arms, one grandmother 
 with her daughters and two grandchildren in the 
 house. I do not think the grandmother is over 
 35. She has made good progress in school, and 
 has proved to be one of the best women in the 
 house. Fully two-thirds of the girls are married; 
 more than half ran away to come to the school. 
 I had doubts as to the outcome of taking such a 
 conglomeration of material and labeling it a 
 ‘Girls’ School.’ But I stood back of it, and 
 decided whether or not a girl should be taken in. 
 I kept off the husbands when they came to get 
 their runaway wives. I did not make an enemy 
 among all the bunch of husbands; many of them 
 to-day are my best friends. Thirteen of the fifty 
 girls professed Christ during the term. The 
 change in the girls by the end of the term was 
 most marked. These girls were very unpromis¬ 
 ing when they started, but as I talked with them 
 at the end of the term there was a frankness and 
 a manifest desire to do what was right that made 
 me feel I was talking to Christian girls. It was 
 not a promising bunch of girls to turn over to 
 a young woman and say: ‘Here is your Girls’ 
 School,’ but it turned out well.” 
 
 This could hardly be called a model school, 
 but the change from the past is so marked and 
 the results so large that it means the coming of 
 a New Day in Kamerun. 
 
 This change is strikingly manifest in a letter 
 sent by one of the native preachers to a mission¬ 
 ary physician, who had been on furlough, and 
 was about to return to Africa. We give an 
 exact translation of this interesting epistle : 
 
 “Lam, West Africa. 
 
 “I see very good now because I am able to 
 write you a letter with my own hands. Great 
 
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thanks, great thanks, I give God, because God 
 remembers people in two ways, ‘mfa’a ya’ (re¬ 
 garding) the soul he sent Jesus to save the soul, 
 and regarding the flesh he sent the Doctor to 
 come and help our bodies. Great thanks, great 
 thanks, because of His great mercy. Praise to 
 Him, forever. All people ought to praise Him. 
 Father God of mercy. He never changes, al¬ 
 though people do wrong. His mercy is still with 
 us. I also say again to you, please write me 
 and counsel me as you used to do. When we 
 went to Elat, the words you counselled me helped 
 me very much. Also the people of this place want 
 medicine very much, spleen medicine, ulcer medi¬ 
 cine, worm medicine, and ‘Mintua’ medicine. 
 Please send me a letter of the prices how I shall 
 sell. Stay well. 
 
 (Signed.) “Bekale Mendon.” 
 
 The New Day is evidenced by the New Mis¬ 
 sion Spirit. 
 
 The Bulu is not willing to keep the Gospel to 
 himself. He is looking after the “other sheep.” 
 Some two years ago the missionary with some 
 native evangelists opened an outstation at Metet, 
 75 miles east of Elat, the most interior station of 
 the Mission. Native men were left in charge at 
 first, then the station was manned by two mis¬ 
 sionaries. It was a wild country and unpromis¬ 
 ing, save to those endued with the New Mission 
 Spirit. To-day there is a church with an at¬ 
 tendance at the Sunday service of between four 
 and five hundred, a day school of more than 
 200, 110 of whom are boarders, and nine village 
 schools in the vicinity of the station. These re¬ 
 sults have been accomplished by two missionaries, 
 one of whom was present not more than half 
 the time. The native Christian has been imbued 
 with the mission spirit. Within a few months 
 an outstation was established nearly fifty miles 
 beyond Metet among the Yebekole. The Yebe- 
 kole tribe is large and is neighbor to another 
 
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large tribe, the Maka, whose language dilYers 
 slightly from that of the Mekuka, near Lolodorf. 
 Many of these people understand the Bulu, the 
 language familiar to the missionary. 
 
 Here is a picture of what occurs on Sunday in 
 this remote station: 
 
 “We have big crowds seated in the street, for 
 as yet we have no palaver house. They sit and 
 listen. They are learning some of the songs. It 
 is a great pleasure to lead them, and teach them 
 these old songs of Zion. The schoolboys, having 
 learned these songs, are able on Sundays to show 
 others how they can sing, and they are of great 
 assistance to us. Each Sunday the boys are 
 scattered into companies, and sent out to hold 
 meetings in the villages around us, and their 
 name is legion; and in this way each Sunday we 
 succeed in telling the ‘Story’ to hundreds of 
 people. They are coming to know us and to 
 realize that we are here to help them. As I 
 meet people along the road, they stop and ask me 
 about the ‘things of God.’ Some of the old 
 headmen are getting frightened lest we will 
 interfere with their evil practices, and are pro¬ 
 hibiting boys from coming to school; but this 
 will only serve to increase their attendance.’’ 
 
 The leaven is working among the Maka tribe; 
 as witness, the following incident: 
 
 “There is one headman of the Maka tribe, 
 among whom we have never had any work, who 
 sent for me to talk school, and he said if I would 
 send a teacher to his town he would put up a 
 nice large building for the school, a house for 
 the teacher, and see that the school was filled 
 with boys, perhaps reaching as high as 300. He 
 has been sending some of his boys across the 
 river to our school, where they go on Sunday 
 afternoons, taking food for five days and staying 
 there till Friday; then they go back to their 
 towns and rest for two days. But these little 
 fellows endure hardships trying to come over 
 there, as they must wade through several swamps, 
 
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The only Missionary Residence at Metet Station 
 Jvine loth, igi 2 
 
walk about five miles, and then cross the big 
 NIong River, sometimes having to swim. I am 
 hunting for a strong Christian teacher to go back 
 there, as it seems to me this is a splendid open- 
 ing. 
 
 “A year ago when I was sent up into this tribe 
 to see about starting some work, they refused to 
 let us get a place, and tried to drive us out; but 
 now the very old chief who was so opposed to 
 us has sent some of his boys to our school.” 
 
 The terminus of the new railroad now being 
 built from Duala, the capital of the Kamerun, 
 will be within 20 miles of Metet on the NIong 
 River. From this main terminal of the railroad 
 canoes loaded with cargo can travel up the river 
 to a point 125 miles east-of Metet. The loads can 
 then be taken across country a couple of days 
 and carried down a large stream whose waters 
 flow into the Congo. 
 
 The day is surely dawning in Kamerun when 
 the Bulu Christian, leaving his home and tribe, 
 is willing to go into the jungle to an alien race 
 to tell the old, old story! 
 
 The handing over of a strip of territory by 
 France to Germany, extending from Lake Tchad, 
 almost to the equator, and eastward as far as 
 the Schari River, has greatly enlarged the sphere 
 of operation of the Kamerun District of our 
 West Africa Mission. The Bulu evangelist may 
 yet have his share in the bringing of a New Day 
 into darkest Africa. 
 
 New York, September, 1912. 
 
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 Board of Foreig-n Missions 
 of the 
 
 Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. 
 156 Fifth Avenue. New' York 
 
 Form 1814