Mary slessor biography pdf
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Mary Slessor ticking off Calabar: Early settler Missionary fail to notice W. P. Livingstone
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"It were worth while to die, if thereby a soul could be born again" - The Fearless Missions Approach of Mary Slessor
Liberty University “It were worth while to die, if thereby a soul could be born again.” - The Fearless Missions Approach of Mary Slessor A paper submitted to Dr. Daniel Sheard In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the course CHHI 657 Liberty Baptist Theological seminary By Elke Speliopoulos Downingtown, Pennsylvania Sunday, May 6, 2012 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 MARY SLESSOR 1 A YOUNG WOMAN’S JOURNEY 4 INTO AFRICA 6 DISRUPTING THE STATUS QUO 8 IMPACTING CALABAR AND AREAS BEYOND 10 COLONIALISM AND MISSION 12 A LEGACY 13 CONCLUSION 15 BIBLIOGRAPHY 17 INTRODUCTION Women missionaries working alone in Africa was an unheard-of concept when Mary Slessor arrived in Africa to serve. It was not that it was impossible, but that it was deemed too dangerous. Yet at five feet tall and with bright red hair ensuring she would stand out in an African setting, this twenty-eight year old Scottish woman set out to do just that in 1876, starting at the Calabar River of modern-day Nigeria and pushing further and further into the African interior to tribes deemed too dangerous to interact with, even by the indigenous people Slessor encountered. Showing unc
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THE WHITE QUEEN OF OKOYONG
THE STORY OF MARY SLESSOR FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
A TRUE STORY OF ADVENTURE HEROISM AND FAITH
BY
W. P. LIVINGSTONE
AUTHOR OF "MARY SLESSOR OF CALABAR"
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1917,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
ALL GIRLS AND BOYS
WHO ARE
LOOKING FORWARD
AND
DREAMING DREAMS
"She left all and followed Him."
[Pg vii]
CONTENTS
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| Chief Dates in Miss Slessor's Life | xi |
| CHAPTER I | |
| Tells how a little girl lived in a lowly home,
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