“Day must be dawning,” said one of the girls.

Day was dawning for Mary, God’s eternal day.  She slipped away from the earth to be with her Saviour in Heaven.

“Our Mother is dead, and we shall be slaves now that our Mother is dead,” cried the natives.  The news that the white Ma was dead spread rapidly.  Natives came from all over the country to see the woman they loved.

Mary’s body was taken to Itu where services were held.  Then it was taken to Duke Town.  Here another service was held.  Then the coffin was carried to the beautiful cemetery on Mission Hill.  From this place could be seen a large part of the city where Mary had begun her faithful missionary work in Africa.  Around her grave the grateful natives gathered and wept for her who had wept and prayed over them.

“Do not cry, do not cry,” said old Ma Fuller, Mary’s native friend through the years.  “Praise God for His blessings.  Ma was a great blessing.”

First the Africans called her “the white Ma who lives alone.”  Then they called her “the Ma who loves babies.”  But lastly they called her “#eka kpukpru owo#,” “everybody’s Mother.”

THE END

Books on Women Missionaries

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WHITE QUEEN OF THE
CANNIBALS

The Story of Mary Slessor
By A.J.  Bueltmann

When Mary was young, she heard her mother read about the dangers and rewards of missionary work in Calabar, Africa.  This challenged Mary Slessor’s young heart and she determined to serve her Lord there. White Queen of the Cannibals records her courage as a missionary to the worst of pagans.  The story is simply told that it might inspire children to Christian service.

NOT ALONE By Eunice V. Pike

Many hundreds of languages in the world today have never been reduced to writing.  Uncounted thousands of people cannot read God’s Word.  The work of Wycliffe Bible Translators is to master the language of a tribe, reduce it to writing, and then teach the people to read the Scriptures—­in their own tongue.  Eunice Pike recounts her years spent with the Mazatec Indians in Mexico, giving them God’s Word.

CLIMBING By Rosalind Goforth

After returning home from many years of missionary service in China, Rosalind Goforth reflects on those incidents that most affected her life for Christ.  Written to display the mercy of the Lord and “to help others face life’s hard problems,” the author recalls her experiences from childhood to retirement—­a life of constant climbing.