Book Description

Title:

Mary Slessor of Calabar. Pioneer Missionary, 4th edn

Author:

W.P. Livingstone [1860-1950]

Publication Year:

1917

Location:

London

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pages:

347

Subjects:

Christian Mission, Biography, Mary Slessor

Copyright Holder:

Public domain

Contents

• Prefatory Note
• First Phase. A Scottish Factory Girl
1. Saved By Fear
2. In the Weaving-Shed
3. Misery
4. Taming the Roughs
5. Self-Culture
6. A Tragic Land
7. The Three Marys
• Second Phase. Work and Adventure at the Base
1. The Breath of the Tropics
2. First Impressions
3. In The Underworld
4. The Pull of Home
5. At the Seat of Satan
6. In Elephant Country
7. With Back to the Wall
8. Bereft
9. The Sorrows of Creek Town
10. The Fulness of the Time
• Third Phase. The Conquest of Okoyong
1. A Tribe of Terrorists
2. In The Royal Canoe
3. The Adventure of Taking Possession
4. Facing an Angry Mob
5. Life in the Harem
6. Strange Doings
7. Fighting a Grim Foe
8. The Power of Witchcraft
9. Sorcery in ihe Path
10. How House and Hall Were Built
11. A Palaver at the Palace
12. The Scottish Carpenter
13. Her Greatest Battle and Victory
14. The Aftermath
15. The Sweet and the Strong
16. War in the Gates
17. Among the Churches
18. Love of Lover
19. A Letter and its Result
20. The Blood Covenant
21. "Run, Ma! Run!"
22. A Government Agent
23. "Eccentricities," Spade- Work, and Daydreams
24. Maiden-Mother and Angel-Child
25. Mary Kingsley's Visit
26. An All-Night Journey
27. Akom: A First-Fruit
28. The Box from Home
29. An Appeal to the Consul
30. After Seven Years
31. The Passing of the Chiefs
32. Clothed by Faith
33. The Shy Speaker
34. Isolation
1. A Mother in Israel
2. The Cares of a Household
35. Exiled to Creek Town
36. Pictures and Impressions
37. A Night in the Bush
38. With Loving-Kindness Crowned
• Fourth Phase. The Romance of the Enyong Creek
1. The Reign of the Long Juju
2. Planting a Base
3. On to Arochuku
4. A Slave-Girl's Triumph
5. A Bush Furlough
6. Beginnings
7. Moving Inland
8. The Problem of the Women
9. A Christmas Party
10. Mutinous
11. On the Bench
12. A Visitor's Notes
13. A Rest-Home
14. Scotland: The Last Farewell
15. Growing Weather
16. "The Pity of It"
17. The Settlement Begun
18. A Scottish Guest
19. A Motor Car Romance
20. Struck Down
• Fifth Phase. Onward Still
1. In Heathen Deeps
2. "Real Life"
3. The Autocratic Doctor
4. God's Wonderful Palaver
5. Weak But Strong
6. Her First Holiday
7. Injured
8. Friendships with Officials
9. Power Through Prayer
10. Bible Student
11. Back to the Old Haunts
12. Royal Recognition
13. Battle For a Life
14. A Vision of the Night
15. Storming the Citadels
16. Clarion Calls
17. Love-Letters
18. A Lonely Figure
19. When The Great War Came
20. The Time of the Singing of Birds
21. Tribute and Treasure
22. Seen and Unseen
23. The Alabaster Box

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