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Biographical Sketch 
 —of— 
 
 Thomas F. Hallowell 
 
 Rev. E. M. Hursh. 
 
 The grace of God has worked no greater miracle than 
 is wrought when a man or woman, boy or girl is saved 
 from the awful bondage of heathenism and Mohamme¬ 
 danism as found in West Africa and many other portions 
 of the Dark Continent. Here is briefly told the story of 
 how one young man was set free and of the wonderful 
 work he has been doing in liberating others. 
 
 In a town not many miles from Rotifunk, Sierra 
 Leone, a child was born about sixty years ago whose 
 parents were of the Lokkoh and Temne tribes, and who, 
 like many of their tribesmen, were followers of the 
 Mohammedan religion. His father was also a member 
 of the royal family. 
 
 At birth he of course submitted to the usual tribal 
 ceremonies and at various times thereafter during baby¬ 
 hood, which would often be performed with utter disre¬ 
 gard to the kindly, gentle touches so tenderly adminis¬ 
 tered in the Christian nursery. He was “toted” on his 
 mother’s back as she would go on long journeys or as 
 she bent over her work in kitchen and farm. When old 
 enough to work he gathered fire wood, carried water— 
 the head being the principal burden bearer. Certainly 
 no other part of his anatomy could have borne so great 
 a strain. And the secret of an African child’s ability to 
 carry such remarkably heavy loads on its head, burdens 
 that it could scarcely lift with its two hands, is doubtless 
 largely due to the hardening and thickening process of 
 the skull which result from the hot rays of the sun to 
 which it is always exposed while being carried on its 
 mother’s back, and especially to the early development 
 of the muscles of the neck which are constantly employed 
 in holding the head erect while tied to its mother’s back 
 regardless of the position and movements of her body. 
 
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When he was about fourteen years old he was 
 
 “stolen” from his home by the “porroh devil” and carried 
 to the secret “bush school,” where with other boys of 
 about the same age he was given an intensive course of 
 instruction. There he was taught tribal law, ceremonial 
 law, native religious beliefs (superstitions as we call 
 them), the art of war and work; in short, there he was 
 taught all the “shalts” and “shalt nots” included in the 
 African’s category of the “whole duty of man.” At the 
 time of his initiation and at different times during the 
 two or three months’ session of the “bush school” and 
 ^^gain at its close, he and his companions were subjected 
 to ceremonies with such severe physical strain which the 
 weaker youths often do not survive. 
 
 In addition to being taught all the heathen rites, being 
 the son of a Mohammedan, he was among that group of 
 boys of his native town who were taught Moslem pray¬ 
 ers and the Koran. With a board for a slate on which 
 the Priest wrote the Arabic characters by means of a 
 delible solution, he became familiar with large portions 
 of the Koran, which he and his comrades would say 
 over and over in loud voices, each “on his own.” “Silence 
 is golden”—but not in a Mohammedan school, where but 
 for the noise it would not be a school. And so far as 
 the boys are concerned it is as senseless as it is noisy. 
 Familiar with the Koran did we say? Familiar only in 
 the sense that they committed it to memory scarcely 
 knowing a word of the Arabic language in which it is 
 written. But this made little difference to the teachers 
 and because the boy of our story was alert and quick to 
 learn and early showed elements of leadership which be¬ 
 came more pronounced as he grew into manhood, he was 
 picked out for the priesthood and was to be trained with 
 this in view. 
 
 But he was industrious as well as ambitious and was 
 not fully satisfied to idle his time away as a scholar in 
 such a doleful school, nor was he afraid to work. 
 
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However, he could not help but feel the importance of 
 his social status. His father was not only a “big man” 
 in the country, belonging to the ruling class, but he was 
 a leader among the Mohammedans. So viewed from the 
 standpoint of his tribe he had every prospect for a bright 
 future before him and pride naturally filled his heart. 
 Yet he was not indifferent to what was going on around 
 him, he used his eyes and ears for the purpose they were 
 intended, and thus he saw and heard. His active senses 
 and keen mind brought him to the turning point in his 
 life. 
 
 He came into contact with the work of our Mission. 
 Our pioneer native teacher, whose name was Mosumana 
 Soko, conducted a night school in a small town not far 
 from Rotifunk. The school was held on an open veranda 
 so that all who would could see and hear what was going 
 on. At this time the subject of our story lived in this 
 town. But, being a Mohammedan, he of course would 
 hardly be allowed to go to the school. He was neverthe¬ 
 less attracted by the singing and reciting of those who 
 did attend. He was particularly impressed when the 
 boys and girls kneeled and repeated the Lord’s Prayer in 
 concert. He overheard the petition—“Forgive us our 
 sins,” and this lodged in his mind and tormented him day 
 and night. His proud spirit was finally so humbled that 
 he condescended to ask the teacher this question, “Who is 
 it that forgives sin?” In answering, the teacher had a 
 splendid opportunity to sow good seed in the young 
 man’s heart. 
 
 Sometime not long after he was one of the crew that 
 was rowing a boat load of produce to Freetown. The 
 railway that was later built through that section had 
 not come as far as Rotifunk, so it was necessary for them 
 to pass down the Bompeh river and put out to sea 
 through Yorah Bay, then the last half of the journey had 
 to be made in the open sea. On this particular trip all 
 went very well until they approached Freetown harbour 
 
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where there is often a high wind, counter currents and 
 unfavorable tide. And on this occasion the elements 
 were against their small craft. When the crew became 
 alarmed they began to pray, but they prayed to the god 
 of the Koran. They repeated their creed over and over 
 again: “There is no god but god and Mohammed is his 
 prophet, there is no god but god and Mohammed is his 
 prophet.” But all to no avail. They began to throw 
 their cargo overboard and yet there seemed to be no 
 hope of safety. Finally the young “priest” remembered. 
 He remembered the words of the teacher in the mission 
 school and he at once began to pray to God through Jesus 
 Christ who forgives sin. This prayer was answered im¬ 
 mediately, all were saved and with great joy they landed. 
 
 It is hardly necessary to say that this incident lead to 
 the conversion of Thomas Hallowell. He returned to 
 the town back in the country and at once became a pupil 
 in the mission night school. And the way in which he 
 o^ot his new name so soon after his conversion seems a 
 remarkable coincidence. Mrs. M. E. A. Hallowell, of Los 
 Angeles, California, had written the teacher of this night 
 school and asked him to give the name of her deceased 
 husband to one of his boys. And thus he was given the 
 name, Thomas F. Hallowell, in memory of a very good 
 
 and faithful minister of the Gospel. Did the name given 
 by this praying woman cause the mantle to fall upon this 
 
 babe in Christ, or had the mantel fallen upon him before, 
 or was it the combination of circumstances, seemingly 
 providentially timed, that caused the witness of the Spirit 
 in Thomas Hallowell’s life that has never ceased to be a 
 powerful testimony to the efficacy of the gospel of the 
 grace of God? Whatever the answer—it was God, who 
 “moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform.” 
 
 Soon after he entered the night school one of the ter¬ 
 rible tribal wars broke out, putting an end to the work 
 there, and Thomas with other boys escaped to Rotifunk. 
 Here he entered school in August, 1884. It should be 
 remembered that when he was converted at the age of 
 
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twenty-four he could neither read nor write a word of 
 English. To him all things had become new; a new 
 faith, a new name and a new opportunity to make possible 
 the living of a new life. He boldly witnessed for Christ 
 from the beginning. He soon became a good inter¬ 
 preter and he was a good student in school. He took a 
 courageous stand against both fetish and Moslem prac¬ 
 tices. One incident shows his contempt for the religion 
 of his fathers and the daring with which he attacked it. 
 While in the mission home at Rotifunk he with one of 
 the other boys cast the “devil” (stone covered with white 
 cloth) of the Rotifunk chief, in the river, took away the 
 food that had been sacrificed to it and burned the “devil 
 house,” a small shrine in which the devil lived. For his 
 graduating essay he choose the subject “Mohammedan¬ 
 ism and Its Followers.” 
 
 The girl, afterwards named Bessie Weeks, who was to 
 become his wife lived in an out-station. Desiring her 
 to have the same privileges of securing an education that 
 he enjoyed he brought her to the Rotifunk school. The 
 marriage was hastened, however, when Thomas saw the 
 possibility of his hopes being shattered because another 
 man was offering her parents more money than he could 
 pay them. The wedding was forthwith arranged for and 
 the ceremony was the first to be performed in the Rotifunk 
 chapel, which was the first chapel and new at that time. 
 Much interest was created in the community by this 
 Christian marriage, which took place in the year 1886. 
 
 Thomas continued in school until he completed his 
 course ten years later, and Bessie, his wife, also continued 
 to go to school after their marriage until after their sec¬ 
 ond baby was born when she asserted her Christian right 
 and declared that she would not go to school with one 
 pickin’ tied on her back and with another at her side, 
 and she didn’t; this is the first triumph of “women’s 
 rights” on record in the work of the W. M. A. in Sierra 
 Leone. But with what this plucky, sweet spirited, little 
 
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woman had already received in the school and with the 
 help her good husband afterward gave her in the home, 
 her education, though somewhat meager, has been a great 
 blessing to herself and family and all with whom she 
 comes in contact. She reads and writes, loves her Bible 
 and actively supports her husband in his work. After 
 they had been married for over twenty-five years Thomas 
 took great delight in saying to one of the missionaries that 
 it had never been necessary to call in a third person to 
 settle a “palaver” between him and his wife. And those 
 who know with what constant peril a Christian home is 
 surrounded in Africa are ready to testify that nothing 
 but the grace of God can preserve the sanctity of such a 
 home established as it is in a polygamous social order 
 where morality and religion have so little in common. 
 Their two children, a girl and a boy have both grown 
 and are married. James, the younger, was graduated 
 from Albert Academy in 1913, and has since been a 
 teacher and itinerant in the employ of the Mission. He 
 was married in October, 1918, to Miss Sarah Ann Ma- 
 cauley, a Temne girl, who had been trained in the 
 Moyamba Girls’ Home. 
 
 Immediately following his school days at Rotifunk 
 he accepted an appointment from the Mission and has 
 actively and zealously engaged in preaching the Gospel 
 ever since. His work was at Rotifunk up to the time 
 of the uprising in 1898. As is w r ell known, at this 
 tragic hour in the history of the W. M. A. work many 
 native Christians along with five of our missionaries 
 were massacred there. Thomas did all in his power to 
 prevent these awful atrocities, but all in vain were his 
 efforts to protect his friends and stay the hands of the 
 cruel perpetrators. But his own life was spared, and, 
 dare we not say, divinely so. In writing to the Super¬ 
 intendent of the Mission in Freetown, on the 3rd of 
 May, 1918, Thomas—or shall we not .now call him 
 “Pa Hallowell” as he is better known and familiarly 
 
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called by al his friends and associates on the field— 
 wrote: 
 
 “Rather than do anything else these days, I feel to 
 be quiet and spend the time alone in prayer with my 
 Bible, for the awful memories of what happened twenty 
 years ago to-day are deeply impressed on my mind. 
 There is great sadness in my heart when I think of our 
 dear missionaries who then laid down their lives, but 
 I am thankful, too, for all they did, for what they did 
 for me and that God spared me to do a great work. I 
 now feel to do a much greater work to prove my love 
 to Jesus Christ who gave His life for me and all my peo¬ 
 ple many of whom are yet unsaved.” 
 
 While pursuing his active duties as a mission worker 
 he has been a student, as well, much of the time. Soon 
 after he took active work he began to read for the min¬ 
 istry. He began with the quarterly conference reading 
 course which he finished within a few years and then 
 he took up the more arduous task of reading the books 
 of the annual conference preachers’ course. From year 
 to year he persisted and sat to his examination in one 
 or more books. After the Theological Institute was 
 organized in 1907, which was in session three weeks 
 each year, he took advantage of the help this offered the 
 licentiates. So by patience, prayer, and persistent effort 
 he finished his course in a satisfactory manner and was 
 ordained along with two other licentiates at the annual 
 conference held at Freetown, in January, 1910, by Dr. 
 J. R. King, then Superintendent. Only the miracle 
 working Gospel could work the mighty change that made 
 of this man an Elder in the Church of Christ, who, but 
 for the miracle, would have become a blind leader of the 
 blind, a priest of a false religion—Mohammedanism. 
 
 When the work of reconstruction was undertaken 
 following the uprising of 1898, several stations were 
 opened in the Yonnie section of the Temne country. 
 Makunda had opened in 1895. Thomas Hallowed who 
 has been the leading factor in the development of all the 
 
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work in that section was sent to reopen Makunda in 
 1899. A piece of ground was secured, a mission house 
 and barrie chapel were erected. Within a few years 
 a church was organized and of course a school was con¬ 
 ducted from the beginning. The next station to be 
 opened was Ronietta, the paramount chiefs town about 
 eight miles northeast of Makunda. Pa Hallowed was 
 appointed to open this work in 1904. 
 
 The paramount chief, Foula Mansa, was converted 
 under his preaching and from the day he found Christ 
 he used his powerful influence to help forward the work 
 of the Mission. A splendid site was secured for the 
 mission and in a short time the grounds were well laid 
 out, a mission house was built and a little later a sub¬ 
 stantial adobe chapel was erected, both buildings were 
 covered with an iron roof. Flowering plants and fruit 
 trees were planted which have long since, from year to 
 year, adorned the grounds with beautiful flowers and 
 abundant fruitage. In a few years those who had been 
 won to Christ were organized into a church which now 
 has a membership of over fifty and which is taking steps 
 towards becoming self-supporting. 
 
 To fully appreciate his strong personality and wonder¬ 
 ful message, one must hear Pa Hallowell preach to his 
 own people in his and their own tongue. One may sit 
 and listen and not know the meaning of a single word 
 spoken, yet the whole message is given in such a con¬ 
 vincing manner and with so much force, judging from 
 the response from those who do hear and from the way 
 he throws his whole soul and body into it, that you are 
 persuaded that he believes what he says and that it is 
 born of deep conviction and experience. So, from day 
 to day, while at work in his station or while itinerating 
 among the many towns of the surrounding country that 
 marvelous Gospel story is told with increasing power as 
 it becomes more deeply rooted in his own soul. He has 
 multiplied his usefulness many fold during the past few 
 years by using a bicycle in his itinerating work. We 
 
will possibly never know how much good seed he has 
 sown to undermine the doctrines of Mohammedanism 
 whose devotees he brings to confusion through his hum¬ 
 ble manner and direct gospel message. 
 
 But to understand fully the secret of his power we 
 must not overlook that invisible spiritual force that was 
 projected from the life of that quiet, frail little woman 
 of California, who until the time of her death in 1914, in 
 the spirit—through faith and prayer—walked by the 
 side of her “son in the Lord,” as she always referred to 
 Thomas. She took a vital interest in the work of the 
 W. M. A. at Rotifunk from the beginning. She famil¬ 
 iarized herself with the names of places and people, 
 native converts and missionaries, chiefs and all the prob¬ 
 lems of the work. But she took especial interest in 
 Thomas Hallowed and through him she learned to know 
 and love the Yonnie people. “By faith she claimed the 
 whole Yonnie country for the Lord and, as the years 
 went by, she saw many triumphs. The Yonnies boast 
 they have never been conquered, but when they said 
 that, they did not reckon with Mrs. Hallowed. She 
 claimed that land for the King as definitely as the 
 patriarchs claimed Canaan.” 
 
 In answer to her prayers for the Yonnie people money 
 was placed in her hands. This she would send direct to 
 her son in the Lord, the human agent through whom the 
 Spirit of God witnessed in reaching the people for 
 which her spirit pleaded daily. With the money she 
 also sent names which she asked Thomas to give to 
 boys and girls who were committed to his care for train¬ 
 ing, and whom the money was intended to support in 
 his home. In this way he was enabled to keep from 10 
 to 15 children in his home each year. They were 
 sent to school and nurtured under the good influence of 
 his Christian household. A number of boys and girls 
 who were thus trained in his home and at the school at 
 Ronietta were sent to the Academy and Moyamba Girls’ 
 
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Home for further training. Some are now in the active 
 service of the Mission. 
 
 When we know of the unity of spirit and the fellow¬ 
 ship in service that existed in the hearts of both these 
 humble servants of God, who, though separated by a 
 sea and a continent, worked hand in hand, heart in heart, 
 in unison with the will of God, month after month and 
 year after year, then we understand the secret of their 
 triumphs. 
 
 The question has possibly arisen in our minds ere 
 this, as to whether this sturdy Christian crusader does 
 not suffer persecution. From the outset many of his 
 former friends and companions turned their backs upon 
 him, but it was not until after he had won the favor of 
 many of his former associates when he was well on in 
 his work at Ronietta that he came to know that his life 
 was actually endangered through the enmity of these 
 very men during his early Christian life. After he won 
 their friendship and support through his preaching and 
 good life, they told him that when he went on his itin¬ 
 erating trips, they went before him and lay in ambush 
 for him by the way, but that every effort of theirs to ap¬ 
 prehend him was frustrated, some power they said 
 seemed to prevent them from moving. Then he was 
 told by others that they tried to put an end to his work 
 by putting deadly poisons in his food at different times, 
 and though he would eat of the food he would not even 
 get sick. So it would seem that to this man of God 
 there has been committed the same power that Christ 
 committed to the seventy when He said: “Behold, I give 
 unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and 
 over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall by 
 any means hurt you.” Yes, Thomas Hallowell has suf¬ 
 fered persecution of sundry varieties, from his own peo¬ 
 ple, from his associates and friends—but he is unswerv¬ 
 ing and bears it patiently for Jesus’ sake. 
 
 In 1907 two new stations were opened; Roruks a few 
 
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miles east of Ronietta and Yonnie Banna, a paramount 
 chief’s town, about 25 miles farther east. A new railway 
 line was built which would ultimately pass through 
 these towns. After his ordination in 1910, Pa Hallowed 
 was made a district superintendent of the whole Yonnie 
 country. So in addition to his station duties at Ronietta 
 he visited the work and counselled with the workers at 
 Makunda, Rokon, Roruks and Yonnie Banna. He re¬ 
 mained in charge of the work at Ronietta until the an¬ 
 nual conference of 1917 transferred him to Yonnie Banna, 
 
 Because of the importance of Yonnie Banna as a cen¬ 
 ter in that whole section it seemed wise to make it the 
 headquarters of the district. The conference, therefore, 
 placed Pa Hallowed in charge with a view to his develop¬ 
 ing this station as a strong center and at the same time 
 continue to have direct oversight of the entire section. 
 
 But in accepting this appointment he was undertaking 
 a great pioneering task. But apart from this considera¬ 
 tion it was naturally not an easy thing for him to break 
 the ties that had been formed with his people at Ro¬ 
 nietta during his pastorate of 13 years. He had become 
 a great, good father to them all. They came to him with 
 all their petty complaints and many ills. He became 
 more attached to the people during the reign of the 
 wicked chiefs, referred to above, for they sought the man 
 of God rather than these “devil worshippers.” 
 
 In fact at one time during his pastorate at Ronietta, 
 the people of his native town came to cad him to be 
 their king. He belonged to the regal line and the chief¬ 
 taincy belonged to him. And do not think that it was 
 not a temptation to him to go back with them and be¬ 
 come their king. He would have been justified in ar¬ 
 guing that he could do more for his people as a Chris¬ 
 tian chief than should a pagan or Mohammedan occupy 
 that important post. But his better judgment prevailed, 
 the dangers to his own spiritual life and the handicaps 
 the position of chief would place upon him as a Chris- 
 
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tian outweighed the advantages it would be to the Gospel 
 of Jesus Christ which he had been called to preach. 
 
 But it was no small trial for him to leave Ronietta 
 which he, with his industrious wife and family, had made 
 so homelike and such a blessing to themselves and the 
 people of the whole community. Going to Yonnie 
 Banna meant beginning over again. It meant laying out 
 a new compound, erecting new buildings and planting 
 flowers and trees, all of which they had earned by the 
 fruit of their labor at the station they were now asked to 
 leave. But after praying the matter through he most 
 willingly undertook the new pioneering task. 
 
 When he arrived at Yonnie Banna the paramount 
 chief (regent) was very ill and was away from his town 
 receiving medical treatment from a government doctor 
 for a full year from that time. 
 
 Pa Hallowell visited his sick chief a number of times, 
 and though he had been a professed follower of Mo¬ 
 hammed for sometime before, he was lead to pray 
 through Jesus Christ and become a humble seeker of 
 truth. When he returned to his town, having recovered 
 from his illness, early in 1918 he again undertook the re¬ 
 sponsible duties of ruling his people. But before he now 
 would hear an important case in his court he called Pa 
 Hallowed and asked him to pray with him. He was 
 ready at once, too, to throw himself into the great build¬ 
 ing enterprise for the Mission that was awaiting him. 
 A fine piece of ground of possibly fifty acreas was marked 
 off for the Mission. He called a meeting of ad of his sub¬ 
 chiefs who were asked to co-operate with him in supply¬ 
 ing men and material to erect the buildings. A mission 
 house, teacher’s house, school building and church were 
 to be built. These were ad to be substantial adobe build¬ 
 ings, ad of which, except the church, would be covered 
 with bamboo thatch for the present owing to war prices 
 for better roofing material. Iron had been purchased be¬ 
 fore the war for the covering of a church building. The 
 
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church was to be a much better building in every way 
 than the others. It was to have a concrete foundation, 
 more substantially built walls with a corrugated iron roof. 
 And it was to be built in memory of Mrs. M. E. A. Hal¬ 
 lowed, a fitting memorial to the woman whose prayers 
 when fully answered will have conquered the whole Yon- 
 nie country. Well, this great project was begun and 
 proceeded so splendidly that by the end of 1918 most of 
 the work was completed. Some work remained on the 
 church. The foundation stone was laid by Bishop A. T. 
 Howard early in December, though the walls were almost 
 completed when this stone was placed in position. 
 
 This building enterprise demonstrates in a wonderful 
 way what Christian leadership in Africa is capable of 
 accomplishing. Having won the paramount chief, Pa 
 Hallowed through his co-operation won the support of ad 
 the sub-chiefs of the entire chieftancy. They responded 
 by giving men and building material. There were from 
 two to three hundred men at work gathering material 
 from the “bush” and constructing these buildings much 
 of the time while the work was going on. Their presence 
 became the finest possible evangelistic opportunity. And 
 the opportunity was seized. Each day during the rest 
 hour at noon Pa Hallowed gave a gospel message and 
 the men were taught to sing gospel songs. Possibly but 
 few of these men knew much of the gospel story before 
 they came together there. The interest of that whole 
 section of the Temne country will be centered in the 
 righteous cause that is being established at Yonnie Banna 
 and which in turn will be propagated from it as a center. 
 Already a number of the chiefs who have cooperated in 
 this work are appealing to the Mission for teachers. 
 
 When the work was first begun two of the chiefs failed 
 to respond in supplying the material asked for. But in a 
 letter to the superintendent of the Mission, Pa Hallowed 
 explains how this difficulty was overcome. He wrote: 
 
 “You will be glad to hear of another victory we have 
 
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won in the building work. A few days ago the other two 
 chiefs under Capri Yonnie, Satimaka of Monika and 
 Kaina Foray of Tondu, seemed to decline to furnish 
 materials for their buildings. The paramount chief him¬ 
 self saw no possible way to influence them. I said to the 
 chief, ‘By the grace of God, I shall see that these chiefs 
 respond to carry out the share of work given to them.’ 
 I then betook myself to earnest prayer. I told my Lord 
 Jesus of the lack of funds for this great work, and I said, 
 ‘Thou Lord, hast blest these people with the riches of 
 this country. Influence them to heartily respond to the 
 request I shall set before them/ I first went to Sati¬ 
 maka, who, after expressing my views as to his responsi¬ 
 bility to complete the mission house, said he would be 
 willing to furnish the thatching material, boards and 
 nails for all the work and see that the house is completed. 
 Then I went to Kaina Foray with the same result. This 
 is all due to all your prayers, and we should all be en¬ 
 couraged to pray. There are many other blessed inci¬ 
 dents that I cannot write about now.” 
 
 We believe that Thomas Hallowell is now making the 
 supreme effort of his life. But he is no longer a young 
 man, and it is greatly regretted that during the last year 
 he has not enjoyed the same robust health of former 
 years. The women of the church in America should not 
 fail to pray unceasingly for him. We should stand to¬ 
 gether to take the place of his praying “mother” from 
 whom he no longer receives helpful letters that always 
 gave him great encouragement to pray and have faith in 
 God. We should pray too that many of the younger men 
 now in. training will step out upon God’s promises and 
 be as fully consecrated to the Lord as this great exam- 
 pier whom they all love as a father. 
 
 Truly a fountain of living water has its source in such 
 a life which gives full expression to John 7 :38. And as 
 the ceaseless current flows into thousands of open hearts 
 that thirst, there is no way to limit its power, for it 
 
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reaches as deep as human need, filling every aching void. 
 
 So may our prayers be added that it might flow swifter 
 and swifter and that branches might be multiplied, so as 
 to increase its volume and wash every stronghold of evil 
 from its base and leave in its wake only the plains of 
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