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At home in Canada, Sibyl gives a talk about missionary life in Angola. Did she inspire any of her audience to become missionaries themselves?
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MISSION STUDY CLASS
A distinctive feature of the Mission Study Class of Sydenham Street United Church of Tuesday was a talk given by Mrs. Dr. Stokey a returned missionary of Chissamba, Angola, West Africa. Almost every phase of native life was outlined in a bright interesting way that made it all very real to those who heard it. The lives of the girls in the schools, who are taught sewing, cooking and basket making and the simplest rules of sanitary living, how to plant and harvest their native corn and vegetables in the most improved way and even how to properly feed and cloth an infant in an effort to prevent the appalling loss of children's lives in infancy. She told of the women too, of their hard and barren lives, rising before daylight to pound their corn on the flat rocks and yet singing always as they worked then later going to the fields to prepare the soil by hoeing and afterwards planting and harvesting their crops of corn and beans (from planting to harvesting being from August to December). To them, too, falls the work of carrying in baskets, upon their heads, the corn from the fields and the wood from the bush. Water, too, must be brought from the stream to cook their corn-meal mush, the beans and the squash.
To the men fall what are in their opinion, the more arduous tasks; the long trading trips to the mainland, extending over periods of weeks and months, for the purchasing of salt, gunpowder, beads, cloth, ivory, wax and rubber. For the men, too, is the smelting of iron for the making of hoes, axes and nails, the cutting down of trees to make the corral for their villages, posts placed closely together to prevent wild animals from entering and their own domestic animals from straying. The men, too, spend much time in the palases house instructing the boys in the history of their tribes (which is handed down only by word of mouth) also in administering justice in their own villages.
The hope of the missionary as he works among these people is the training of the younger generation in newer, happier methods of living; by showing them the Love of Christ to banish from their terror-haunted minds, the fear of evil spirits, and so in time the building of a powerful Christian nation.
A distinctive feature of the Mission Study Class of Sydenham Street United Church of Tuesday was a talk given by Mrs. Dr. Stokey a returned missionary of Chissamba, Angola, West Africa. Almost every phase of native life was outlined in a bright interesting way that made it all very real to those who heard it. The lives of the girls in the schools, who are taught sewing, cooking and basket making and the simplest rules of sanitary living, how to plant and harvest their native corn and vegetables in the most improved way and even how to properly feed and cloth an infant in an effort to prevent the appalling loss of children's lives in infancy. She told of the women too, of their hard and barren lives, rising before daylight to pound their corn on the flat rocks and yet singing always as they worked then later going to the fields to prepare the soil by hoeing and afterwards planting and harvesting their crops of corn and beans (from planting to harvesting being from August to December). To them, too, falls the work of carrying in baskets, upon their heads, the corn from the fields and the wood from the bush. Water, too, must be brought from the stream to cook their corn-meal mush, the beans and the squash.
To the men fall what are in their opinion, the more arduous tasks; the long trading trips to the mainland, extending over periods of weeks and months, for the purchasing of salt, gunpowder, beads, cloth, ivory, wax and rubber. For the men, too, is the smelting of iron for the making of hoes, axes and nails, the cutting down of trees to make the corral for their villages, posts placed closely together to prevent wild animals from entering and their own domestic animals from straying. The men, too, spend much time in the palases house instructing the boys in the history of their tribes (which is handed down only by word of mouth) also in administering justice in their own villages.
The hope of the missionary as he works among these people is the training of the younger generation in newer, happier methods of living; by showing them the Love of Christ to banish from their terror-haunted minds, the fear of evil spirits, and so in time the building of a powerful Christian nation.
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The men, too, spend much time in the palases house instructing the boys
I think palases must be a typo; otherwise surely the reporter would explain what it was, but I can't think what it's supposed to be.
I wish there were something in this article about "What I learned from the Africans", but my impression is that that would have been more Fred's sort of thing than Sibyl's.
I've added Fred as a "Related to" in the documents links, but only because Sibyl is called "Mrs. Dr. Stokey".
I think palases must be a typo; otherwise surely the reporter would explain what it was, but I can't think what it's supposed to be.
I wish there were something in this article about "What I learned from the Africans", but my impression is that that would have been more Fred's sort of thing than Sibyl's.
I've added Fred as a "Related to" in the documents links, but only because Sibyl is called "Mrs. Dr. Stokey".
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