CHARACTERISTICS
More than once, since I began to write this book, it has been remarked to
me by persons whose thoughts of Mrs. Lewis were altogether kindly, that
she was an ordinary woman, and that the interest of her life is rather
due to circumstance than to personality. Dissenting profoundly from this
judgment, regarding her as one of the most extraordinary women I have
ever met, I have wondered how such an opinion could have arisen. And I
have to confess that if the lack of specific brilliant endowments makes a
person ordinary, then perhaps there is excuse for speaking of Mrs. Lewis
in such terms. Of genius, in the usual acceptation of the term, she had
none. And no one was more perfectly aware of this than herself. She had
no great learning. She was not a great speaker. Her speeches were quiet,
earnest, matter-of-fact statements of the things which she had seen with
her eyes, or which she most surely believed in her heart. She was not a
brilliant writer. Her letters are interesting, and often fascinating,
because she tells, with artless directness, stories of life and work
which are remote from common experience. And withal her personal bearing
was quiet and unobtrusive to a degree.
Mrs. Lewis was an extraordinary woman, not by reason of unusual mental
endowments, but rather by reason of distinguished moral and spiritual
qualities, which achieved such co-ordination and control and consecration
of modest gifts, as resulted in the building up of exalted character and
the accomplishment of splendid work. Her life affords an illustration of
the truth that common gifts, conscientiously used to the utmost limits
of their content, become uncommon, and that whoso does his absolute
best in a good cause avails himself of the mystic forces of a divinely
ordered universe, unconsciously, if unconsciously, fulfilling Emerson’s
injunction: “Hitch your waggon to a star.”
If Mrs. Lewis’s gifts were common gifts, they were good gifts, and she
had good store of them. No woman could have done what she did without
a splendid physical constitution, managed and conserved with the
wisdom of common sense. Her powers of endurance under exhausting and
perilous conditions often elicited her wondering gratitude. In exigent
circumstances, when the call of God came to her, she could take the
biggest risks, brave woman that she was. But in normal conditions her
devotion to her vegetable garden and her religious solicitude for all
the details of domestic management which made for hygiene, proved how
precious in her eyes was the matter of health, without which the work
could not be done. The reader will remember that in her discussion of
the qualifications of a woman missionary, next after spiritual fitness
she places a sound constitution. In her judgment an imperfect recognition
of the fundamental importance of this matter was the simple and
lamentable explanation of much sorrow and disappointment and loss.
Possibly not without subtle relation to her sound physical constitution
was her notable force of will, which has been sufficiently illustrated in
the foregoing pages. And I think it likely that the calmness which was
one of her marked characteristics was due to her consciousness that when
all was said she would do what seemed to her to be right, to the limit of
her powers, irrespective of opposition, protest, or demur. Irritation,
fuss, and fluster are the froth of weakness. She knew herself to be
strong. She feared God and nothing else, and declined to waste her energy
in superfluous perturbation.
In her native force of will is to be found the explanation of her
extraordinary power of work. The amount of labour which she got through
day by day in the debilitating climate of tropical Africa is amazing
to many people of normal health, who perform their tasks in the
comparatively bracing atmosphere of the homeland. What she willed to
do she did. Fluctuations of mood were disregarded; petty distractions
were disallowed. Enlightened and determined, she kept her course, as a
liner forges on its way in spite of contrary winds, or buffeting seas,
or enervating calms. Of course the volume and value of her work were
immensely increased by her strict observance of method. She worked by
plan; and here again it is force of will that tells. We are all of us
methodical in ideal. The most casual of mortals has probably made schemes
of work and time-tables enough to suffice for the good ordering of half
a dozen lives. We resolve to make plans, exhaust our impulses in the
seductive labours of construction, and fail in the detail of fulfilment.
Mrs. Lewis made her plans and did what she planned to do. In an early
chapter I have referred to her diary-keeping. Another illustration may
be cited. Fifteen years before her death she determined to retain copies
of her letters. The last letter she ever wrote, given in the previous
chapter, was taken from her copy, and not from the original.
Her patience was as impressive as her strength of mind, and she had need
of it all. The perversities and the backslidings of men and women and
children for whose salvation she toiled and prayed tried her sorely,
but she never gave up hope or the effort and the prayer which hope
inspires. The children under training in her household were a care to
her by day and night, which she sustained to the very end. After the
session had closed at Kimpese, and when the illness was already upon her
which resulted in her death, she wrote a long letter to Mrs. Bowskill,
extending to several closely written quarto pages, discussing mission
business. In the course of it she gave an account, not untouched with
humour, of the impish tricks of one small girl of the household, whose
genius for mischief engineered a series of midnight casualties and
alarums suggestive of the interference of malignant spirits. Detected
and foiled in other matters, the culprit one night startled the dormitory
with outbursts of screaming, ostensibly occasioned by a recurrent dream
that she was being badly beaten. Finally, Mrs. Lewis sent her husband to
assure the innocent sufferer that next time the dream came _he_ would
fulfil it _with a stick_. There was no next time.
But the grand trial of her patience was the seven years’ work at
Kibokolo. By long labour, by kindness which could not be exhausted and
would not be gainsaid, she won the respect and confidence of her wild,
barbarous neighbours, and toward the end of her stay there were hopeful
signs of coming harvest—the harvest of souls, for which her soul longed
with passion derived from the very heart of God. She often spoke of
the weariness and discouragement of those years of waiting. But her
patience never failed. She held to her work, confident that if not in her
day, yet surely in days that followed hers, the faithful sowing would
be recompensed by Divine increase. It was even so. And the patience
which waited for it was divine patience. I do not know whether she was
acquainted with Dora Greenwell’s “Carmina Crucis,” but I can well imagine
her finding comfort in one fine verse, so perfectly expressive of her own
soul’s attitude:
“And while my God is waiting I can wait.”
There is little need to speak of her courage. I decline to call it
masculine. There was nothing masculine about her. Her courage was
sustained by faith. She was engaged on God’s business; she trusted Him
to take care of His servant, and trusting found no cause for fear. One
incident which I have failed to locate in the story may be cited in
further illustration. In the course of a journey which she was making
with her husband through unexplored country, her hammock-bearers and
a number of carriers got ahead of Mr. Lewis, who had been detained.
Suddenly their progress was barred by armed natives, who opened fire. The
carriers dropped their loads and bolted, and her hammock-bearers besought
permission to set her down. This she peremptorily refused, and by sheer
power of will kept them to their duty. There was more firing, but putting
large trust in God and some lesser confidence in the bad marksmanship of
the natives with their flint-lock guns, she waited until Mr. Lewis came
up and placated the enemy.
If Mrs. Lewis lacked the brilliant intellectual qualities which are notes
of genius, she possessed in liberal measure what genius often wants, in
disastrous destitution, viz., good sense—sense so good that it made her
far-seeing, as Mr. Brock justly observes, and of sound judgment. Her
papers which have passed through my hands prove abundantly how profoundly
her practical wisdom was respected by her colleagues, who, as I have
already stated, were accustomed to appeal to her for counsel in their
many difficulties; and I know that I can claim the concurrence of Mr.
Baynes and Mr. Wilson when I say that there was no woman on the field
whose opinions concerning the conduct and the policy of the Mission were
received by the Committee with greater consideration.
She was an excellent judge of character, and though charitable toward
all men, by no means confined herself to the use of honeyed words.
She never found fault where there was none; but when she found it she
described it in plain terms. In confidential letters to her friends occur
passages of personal criticism which would make piquant reading if it
were permissible to publish them. Conscientious and painstaking herself,
she loathed slackness and slovenliness, especially when they appeared in
what purported to be the service of God. Once, upon a great occasion, she
heard a paltry speech from a minister of repute. Upon a lesser occasion
he repeated large part of this speech, watered down to more insipid
weakness, in her hearing and mine. I had known her a long time, but the
withering terms of her criticism were something of a revelation.
Her habitual calmness of demeanour tended to suggest that she was
unemotional; and this sometimes placed her at a temporary disadvantage
in dealing with people who looked for demonstration. She was conscious
of such disadvantage; and I recall a letter in which she congratulates a
sister missionary upon the possession of a temperament which encouraged
instant response. But “still waters run deep,” and if Mrs. Lewis was a
great woman, as I believe she was, it was in chief because “she loved
much.” She loved the dumb creatures about her, and was profoundly moved
by the sight of their suffering. I once said to her husband, since her
death, “Was her calmness never broken up? Did she never explode?” And
he replied, “I only remember three or four occasions upon which she was
carried away by fierce anger, and in every instance it was cruelty to
animals which provoked the explosion.”
She loved the lowly creatures of God; but her greater love was given to
those whom He has made in His own image, and for whom Christ died. Of her
love for her husband and her kinsfolk and her elect friends, who answered
her love in kind, little need be said. It was beautiful and worthy of
her, but still within the common range of human experience and emotion.
The love which marked her out and made her great was that holy charity
which regards with divine compassion the ugly, the unthankful, and the
evil. Squalid African babies, men and women foul with hideous vices and
enthralled by bestial customs, were to her kind heart the dear objects
of incessant solicitude. Enlightened by her great love, she understood
the frightful strength of the forces which crushed them, yet steadfastly
believed in the possibility of their deliverance. Surrounded by naked
savages possessed by legions of devils, she saw as in a vision these same
savages, clothed and in their right minds, sitting at the feet of Jesus,
and the vision lured her on to persist, at any cost, in those ministries
of love through which she hoped He might effect the transforming exorcism.
And this great love was begotten and sustained in her soul by faith in
“Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” She was an evangelical Christian. In
early youth, as she journeyed, she came to a place where there was a
cross, and as she gazed at Him who hung there, the burden of sin rolled
away, but the burden of love came upon her, and she never dropped the
blessed load. “He loved me and gave Himself for me,” was the dominant
note of those “everlasting chimes” which made the cheer and inspiration
of her sacrificial life. And the love which was “unto death” for her, was
“unto death” for the whole world. And where in the whole world were men
and women whose need of the knowledge of the love of God was more clamant
and tragical than that of the Congo peoples? The fingers of the pierced
hand beckoned her to Africa. To Africa she went; and for Africa she lived
and died.
* * * * *
One personal word, and my task is done. Upon his return to England,
alone, Mr. Lewis told me that during one whole day, as his wife lay
dying, her minister’s name was continually upon her lips; and, moreover,
that she had expressed the desire that if anything were written about
her it should be written by his hand. The kindly reader will understand
that this affecting statement could not fail to impart a certain solemn
tenderness to the temper in which I undertook my work. I would that the
hand had been more cunning, and the heart and brain behind it worthier
of the confidence and affection of my friend. But I have done my best. I
have observed restraint. I have painted in quiet colours, as she herself
would have desired. And if this simple memorial of Christian character
and consecrated service carries on the thought of the reader to the Lord
who inspired them, and elicits sympathy for the cause to which they were
so freely given, my recompense will be great, and I will render humble
thanks to God, Who made her what she was, and permitted me to write her
story.
FOOTNOTES
[1] “The Life of George Grenfell, Congo Missionary and Explorer”
(Religious Tract Society), p. 91 _et seq._
[2] See Note B (p. 345).
[3] See Appendix, Note C.
[4] _The Missionary Herald_, 1892, p. 400.
[5] See Appendix, Note D.
[6] See Appendix, Note E.
[7] See Appendix, Note F.
APPENDIX
NOTE A.—P. 55.
THE GERMAN ANNEXATION
The following passage taken from the Report of the Baptist Missionary
Society, May, 1885, states the case succinctly:—
“For many years past the Committee of the Society have indulged
the hope that a favourable response would be returned by the
British Government to the repeated appeals from the chiefs and
headmen of the Cameroons district that their country might be
taken under the government and protection of the English Crown,
and when sending in memorials to successive Governments asking
the same favour for the Society’s settlement of Victoria and
the adjacent district belonging absolutely to the Mission,
the Committee have frequently pleaded on behalf of the Dualla
people also.
“With regard to the Cameroons, however, all such expectations
must be finally abandoned, as the district is now under German
authority, the whole country having been annexed to the German
Empire in August, 1884. The story of how this was brought
about is so plainly told in a recent Blue Book presented in
both Houses of Parliament, and entitled ‘Africa, No. 1, 1885.
Correspondence respecting affairs in the Cameroons,’ that
further reference to it here is unnecessary.
“The Committee, however, cannot refrain from placing on record
their sincere regret that the British Government so long
delayed taking action in response to the numerous appeals of
the Cameroon chiefs and peoples, as but for this delay recent
painful and disastrous events might altogether have been
avoided, and the often expressed desires of the Dualla peoples
complied with.
“Nor is the recent annexation of the settlement of Victoria
by the British Government likely to be attended with any real
advantage to the dwellers there, if reported concessions of
surrounding territory by the English Government to Germany be a
fact; as by such arrangement the small township and territory
belonging absolutely to the Mission will be completely
environed by German possessions, and trade with the interior
rendered practically valueless in consequence of restrictive
and almost prohibitive duties and exactions.
“The outlook at present is dark in the extreme, and it appears
more than probable that the work of the Society on the West
Coast, rendered so dear to the denomination by the sacrifice
of many noble lives and the outlay of large sums of money, may
have to be relinquished.
“Should this eventually prove needful, the Committee earnestly
hope that the work there may be carried on by some Evangelical
German Missionary organisation, whose agents may have the joy
of reaping a rich harvest from the toils, the tears, and the
seed-sowing of devoted workers, many of whom have fallen asleep.
“Under present circumstances, however, and while negotiations
are being carried on with Her Majesty’s Government by the
Committee, it would be premature to forecast the future, or
take any definite steps in the matter.
“The Committee are devoting to this painful business their
constant and careful attention, and they earnestly invite
friends of the Society to unite in special prayer on their
behalf, that they may be Divinely guided to such issues as
shall best promote the glory of God and the truest welfare of
the peoples of the West Coast.”
The apprehensions of the Committee were realised, and in 1887
the stations on the Cameroons River and at Victoria were handed
over to the Basle Mission.
NOTE B.—P. 110.
KONGO AND CONGO
The ancient kingdom, of which San Salvador was the capital, was the
kingdom of _Kongo_. And the language of the Lower Congo region, of
which Dr. Bentley wrote the grammar and dictionary, and into which he
translated the New Testament, is the _Kongo_ language. The San Salvador
district is spoken of by the natives as _Kongo_. Hence when Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis were departing for Kibokolo, they were said to be leaving _Kongo_.
The distinction between Congo and Kongo is not always observed, but the
reader will understand, when he meets the “K” spelling, that it is not
used in error.
NOTE C.—P. 134.
“CONCERNING THE COLLECTION”
It may perhaps not be quite superfluous to inform the reader that the pig
was duly paid for, and its price placed in the treasury, before it was
eaten at the Mission Christmas feast. Obviously all the other items of
this strange collection must needs be in like fashion turned into money,
for transmission to London. Otherwise Mr. Baynes and his staff would have
been decidedly embarrassed by the receipt of a consignment of goods,
including a very dead pig, a keg of gunpowder, and all the rest of it.
NOTE D.—P. 168.
THE OLD CATHEDRAL
The Portuguese discovered the Congo River in 1482, and in course of
time San Salvador became the centre of a Christian civilisation of a
kind. Several churches were built, and the Cathedral ruins referred to
were the relics of the greatest of them. But the slave trade was of
greater interest to the Portuguese than the business of evangelisation,
and ecclesiastics engaged in it. When our missionaries reached San
Salvador, only the faintest traces of earlier missions remained. For many
generations barbarism had resumed its ancient sway.
NOTE E.—P. 194.
“THE FIRST WHITE MEN”
When Lieutenant Grandy reached San Salvador in 1873, the King was ill
with small-pox. The traveller treated him, left directions for further
treatment, and foretold the progress of the case. Upon his return from
Tungwa, he found the King full of wonder at the traveller’s knowledge and
gratitude for his own recovery. By way of proving his gratitude he was
asked to treat kindly the next white men who came along. He promised; and
our missionaries reckoned themselves, in part, indebted for their good
reception to the King’s fidelity to his promise.
NOTE F.—P. 310.
“BELLA”
“Bella” is 27 inches high, with fair hair and eyes that open and shut.
She was sent out to Kibokolo by the children of Belle Isle Church Sunday
School, for Christmas, 1903. In due course she migrated to Kimpese, and
though her complexion had suffered in the Congo climate, as is usual with
English children, her first appearance made a great sensation, and the
fading of her beauty was overlooked by her admirers. It was originally
intended that she should be the “child” of a certain black girl whom the
Belle Isle scholars supported. But Mrs. Lewis determined that she should
be the “child” of the Mission; and to this decision, with its consequent
restrictions, “Bella” doubtless owes her soundness of limb and her
comparatively long career.
INDEX
Adams, Mr., 169, 176
Allen, Dr., 50
American Mission, 300
Antwerp, Seamen’s Church, St. Paul’s, and Cathedral at, 163
Appendix, 343-7
Arthington, Robert, 20
Bain, Mr. and Mrs., 303
Balfern, Mr., 158
Baptist Missionary Society—
Annual Meeting of, 15
demands compensation for property destroyed by Germans, 66
valedictory meeting at Bristol, 88
_Baptist Times_, the, 267
Barosa, Padre, 121, 192
Baynes, Mr., 30, 37, 54, 61, 82, 87, 128
Bayneston, 31
Beedham, Mr. and Mrs., 185, 186
Belgian Colonial Minister, 319, 331
“Bella,” 347
Bentley, Dr. Holman, 21, 120, 254, 256, 266, 267
Bowskill, Mr. and Mrs., 225, 230, 250, 254
Bristol, 87
_British Weekly_, the, 321
Brock, Rev. William, 29, 37, 128
Brook Mount, 46
Brown, Rev. J. J., and Mrs., 3, 42, 91, 130
Buckenham, Mrs., 40, 53, 69
Burnley, Mr., 50
Burton, Capt., 19
Butcher, Mr., 31
Camberwell, Denmark Place, Baptist Church at, 9
“Camden Road, Congo Sale,” the, 17
Camden Road, London, church at, 4, 297
Cameron, Mr. and Mrs., 253, 283
Cameroons, German annexation of, unpopular, locally, 55
“Carmina Crucis,” 337
Catholic Mission, 319
Churchill, Mr. Winston, 320
Clarke, George Rix, 2
Clifford, Dr., 306
Comber Memorial Station, 183, 219
Comber, Miss, 36, 48, 50
Comber, Percy, 38, 131
Comber, Dr. Sidney, 15
Comber, Thos. J., 9-15, 18-23, 32, 113, 190
Congo Mission, 20-23
Crudgington, Mr. Harry, 21
Dibundu, 47
Doke, Mr., 28, 29
Dom Miguel, 222
Dykes, Rev. Oswald, 87
Dyson, Capt., 53
Elembe, 188, 193
Fletcher, Miss, 44, 49
Forfeitt, Mr. and Mrs. Lawson, 132, 154, 165, 193, 238, 266, 297
Forfeitt, Mr. and Mrs. William, 315
Fuller, Mr. and Mrs., 69
Gamble, Dr., 296, 300
Gardiner, Mr., 163
_Geographical Journal_, the, 263
German annexation, the, 343-5
Graham, Mr. and Mrs., 98, 101, 102, 103, 132, 191
Grand Canary, Sailors’ Institute at, 150
Greenwell, Dora, 337
“Grenfell, George, Life of,” 154, 321, 325
Grenfell, Mr. and Mrs., 14, 15, 19-23, 30, 31, 32, 92, 129, 153, 267
Habershon, Dr., 282
Hampstead, Heath Street, church at, 37
Harris, Rendel, 308
Hartland, John, 11, 16, 21, 29, 30-33
Hartland, Miss Alice, 17, 24, 38
Hartland, Mrs., 25-8, 30, 33, 34, 142-4
(_See under_ “Letters.”)
Hartley, Mr., 44
Hay, Mr., 52, 53, 67
Henderson, Mr., 43
Hewitt’s, Miss Amy, impressions of Mrs. Lewis as schoolgirl, 6-8
Hewitt, Misses, their school, 5
_Hilldrop Magazine_, the, 6
Hilldrop Old Girls’ Club, the, 6
Hooper, Mr. and Mrs., 230
Hughes, Mr. W., 31
Ipswich, history of, 2
Islington, Providence Hall, Baptist Church at, 3
Ja-Ja, King, 44
“Jeremiah,” 99
Johnston, Sir H., 308
Johnstone, Mr., 47
Kimpese Institute, 284, 312
Kirkland, Mr., 279
Kivitidi, 107, 108, 114, 119, 133
Kongo and Congo, 345
Ladies’ Missionary Working Party, the, 37
Lamartinière, Monsieur de, 7
Lau, 194
Lembwa, 98, 99
Leopold, King, 248
Letters from Mrs. Lewis to—
Mrs. Hartland, 25-6, 27-8, 29-30, 34-5, 36, 40, 49, 55, 63, 66-7,
71-7, 77-81, 110-11
Miss Hartland, 35, 86-8, 109, 120, 146-8, 152-6, 166-8
Nieces, 70, 135
Mrs. J. Jenkyn Brown, 111-12, 158-61, 238-41, 247-50, 266, 268-70
“A correspondent,” 156-8
Miss Ethel Percival, 163, 168-9, 170-3, 257-8, 301, 302-4, 309-10,
311, 321
“Lily and Alice,” 325-6
Mrs. Howell, 328-9
Mr. Baynes, 179-82, 219-23
Mrs. Pinnock, of Kibokolo, 289
Mrs. Hooper, of Kibokolo, 289-90, 291
Mrs. Kirkland, of Mabaya, 290-1
Mrs. Moon, 293-5
Miss Taylor, 299-301, 305-7, 310-11
Miss Beatrice Percival, 301-2, 304-5, 307-9
Mrs. Gamble, 320-1
“Fanny,” 327
“Bee,” 327-8
Letters from Mr. Lewis to—
Mrs. Hartland, 68-9
Mr. Wilson, 281-2
Letters to Mr. Lewis from—
Mrs. Edward Robinson, 332
Rev. Wm. Brock, 332
Mrs. Jenkyn Brown, 332
Mrs. Hooper, 332
Lewis, Mr., first meeting of, with Miss Thomas, 48;
acts as doctor and nurse, 50;
brief account of, 52-3;
compelled by Germans to go to Bell Town, 59;
friendship with Miss Thomas, 64;
goes to Old Calabar to meet Miss Phillips, 71-2;
marriage with Miss Phillips, 74;
death of his wife, 77;
engagement to Miss Thomas, 85;
attends valedictory meeting at Bristol, 88-90;
marriage, 90;
sails for Congo, 92;
baptizes five candidates at San Salvador, 102;
builds home, 107;
health fails, goes to England, 127;
deputation journeys, 129;
ill with influenza, 130;
sails for Africa, 130;
report for 1892, 145-6;
seriously ill, 148;
voyage to Grand Canary, 149;
return to Mission, 153;
undertakes planning and directing work of building new chapel, 173;
opening of new chapel, 184-97;
invited to settle in Kibokolo, 198;
story of work in Zombo, 198-215;
review of work in connection with the Congo Mission, 215-19;
new home in Kibokolo, 224;
account of reception and prospects, 224-6;
accompanied by Mr. Cameron on journey of itineration, 254;
reads paper before Royal Geographical Society, 262;
visits England for sake of health, 281;
sent to Edinburgh, 283;
deputation work, 284;
offered and accepts appointment of B.M.S. tutor at United Training
Institute, Lower Congo, 284;
article by, on Kimpese Institute in _Missionary Herald_, 285-9;
account of opening of United Training Institute by, 312-4;
death and burial of wife, 331
Lewis, Mrs., birthplace and parentage, 1-3;
her affection for Wales, 1;
comes under influence of Rev. Francis Tucker, 5;
conversion, baptism, admission to Church fellowship, becomes
Sunday-school teacher, 5;
influence of T. J. Comber upon, 9;
death of her mother, 16;
death of brother-in-law, 18;
becomes governess, 26;
dispatches letter to Mr. John Hartland accepting proposal of
marriage, 27;
studies Portuguese, 27;
death of her father, 28;
receives news of John Hartland’s death, 30;
accepted by Baptist Missionary Society, 36;
receives farewell gifts from Camden Road Church, 37;
embarks on the _Corisco_ for the Cameroons, 38;
suffers from sea-sickness, 39;
arrives at Madeira, 40;
story of Benin expedition, 42-3;
reaches Victoria, meets Mr. Lewis, 48;
attacked with fever, 49;
called to nurse Miss Comber, 50-52;
a good sailor, 54;
misadventures on board the _Congo_, 54;
writes account of German attack, 55-60;
strong friendship with Mr. Lewis, 64-5;
left with Mr. Lewis in charge of Mission at Bethel station, 66;
in poor health, 67;
meets Miss Phillips, 72;
in a tornado, 73;
at marriage of Mr. Lewis and Miss Phillips, 74-5;
account of illness, death, and burial of Mr. Lewis’s first wife,
77-81;
returns to England, 82;
receives, and declines, proposal of marriage, 84;
engagement to Mr. Lewis, 85;
in residence at Zenana Medical Home, 85;
experiences at Bristol, 86-8;
attends valedictory meeting at Bristol, 88-90;
married to Mr. Lewis, 90;
sails for Congo, 92;
diary of journey to San Salvador, 92-101;
work at San Salvador described, 104-6;
journey to Madimba, 115-19;
mastery of language, 120;
circular letter, 122-5;
sent to England, 126;
returns to San Salvador, 127;
accompanies husband to England, 127;
Congo Sale at Camden Road, 128;
ill with influenza, 130;
sails for Africa, 130;
extracts from circular letter, 139-41;
accompanies husband to Grand Canary, 149;
return to Mission, 153;
deputation work in England, 162-3;
resting in Switzerland, 163;
return to duty, 165;
contracts mumps, 168;
circular letter, 173-8;
writes account of opening of new chapel at San Salvador, 184-97;
visits Kibokolo, to found Comber Memorial Station, 219-23;
her affection for dumb animals, 228-9;
extracts from correspondence giving impressions of life at
Kibokolo, 231-62;
account of visit to Mabaya, 265-6;
journey to San Salvador, to nurse Mr. Mayo, 273-5;
takes Mrs. Mayo to Matadi, 276-7;
extracts from diary, 278-9;
visits England, 281;
death of niece, 283;
holidays at Stockholm, Peebles, Pwllheli, Deal, Millington, 292-3;
serious attack influenza, 295;
returns to Africa, welcomed there, 299-301;
circular letter by, 316-20;
report of her work, 322-4;
stricken with fever—collapse, 325;
her last correspondence, 326-9;
death and burial, 331;
characteristics, 333-42
Liley, Mr., 44
Lloyd George, 309
Lowrie, Mr., 303
Lualaba River, 20
Lyall, Mrs., 73, 74
Mabie, Dr. Catherine, 267
Maclaren, Dr., 89
Maentwrog, 1, 162
Mansonso, 197
Masson, M. Gustave, 37
Mata, 192, 202, 203, 204, 221
May, Mr. and Mrs., 26
Mayo, Mr. and Mrs., 271-9
_Missionary Herald_, the, 45, 122, 127, 142, 199, 233, 284, 312
Moolinaar, Mr., 122
Moon, Mr., 302-3, 310
Myers, Rev. J. B., 30
Ndonzwau, 193
Ndosimao, 222
Newport, Mon., 129
Nlekai, 108, 109, 135, 190
Nodes, Miss Rosa, 10, 24
Oram, Mr., 158
Parkinson, Mr. C. W., 151, 161, 163
Parkinson, Mantu, 189
Parkinson, Miss May, 151
Penmaenmawr, 162
Percival, Beatrice, 18
Percival, Ethel, 18
Percival, Eva, 18, 282-3
Percival, Dr. Richard, 18
Pewtress, Miss Emily, 10
Pewtress, Mr. S. Leslie, letter from, 12-13
Pewtress, Stephen, 10
Phillips, Mr., 92, 93, 94, 97, 98, 101, 104, 132, 174, 175, 176, 185,
196, 306, 307, 308
Phillips, Mrs., death of, 179
Phillips, Miss, 53, 65
“Pilgrim’s Progress,” the, 270, 281
Pinnock, Mr. John, 52, 71, 149, 197
Pople, Mr., 155
Robinson, Mr. and Mrs., 87
Ross, Mr., 87
Royal Geographical Society, 262
Saker, Alfred, 19
Saker, Miss, 44, 46, 47, 49, 53
San Salvador—
King of, 117, 132
Catholic Mission at, 121, 135
Scrivener, Mr., 93
Seymour, Mrs., 24-5, 61, 86
Silvey, Mr., 47, 50, 58
Sims, Dr., 303
Smith, Annie, 8, 131
Smith, Emily, 8, 17
Smith, Mrs. Frank, 87
Smith, Mrs. Jonas, 17
Smith, Jonas, 8, 14
Soden, Baron Von, 75
Spencer, Miss, 296, 300
Stapleton, Mr. Walter, 126
Swedish Missionary Society, 285
Sygrave, Miss, 271
Thomas, Eliza Jane, 18
Thomas, George, 1
Thomas, Griffith, 1-3
Thomas, Herbert, 4
Thomas, Jane, 2
Thomson, Mrs. Quintin, 45
Tucker, Rev. Francis, 4
Tyndale Chapel, 87
Union Chapel, Manchester, 4
United Conference of Congo Missionaries, 266
United Training Institute, 284, 312
Vita, 166, 188, 195
Wavatidi, 192
Weeks, Mr., 101, 102
Weeks, Mrs., 93
Welford, Mr. and Mrs., 71
Wherrett, Mr., 163
Wilson, Rev. C. E., 281-2, 296, 338
Wooding, Mr. and Mrs., 225, 272
Zombo—
Scheme, 178
Story of work in, 198-215
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