A MISSIONARY'S PERILOUS EXPERIENCE.
IN the year 1834 the Methodist Episcopal Church sent the first unmarried woman to Liberia. Her associates in Monrovia fell under the power of the dreaded African fever, and all died or were compelled to return home. She stood alone unflinchingly at her post until the mission was reënforced, suffering in the meantime some terrible experiences. Upon one occasion a bloodthirsty band of inland natives, wild and untouched by Christianizing influences, made a sudden raid upon the settlement where the mission was located. She was captured, bound hopelessly hand and foot, and thrown upon the bottom of one of their rude boats. There in that awful situation, unable to move at all, she was borne up the stream for three weary days amid the wildest of the jungles of that up country. She soon saw by their looks and frightful gestures that her captors were cannibals and were counting on a feast out of her body. From this perilous position she was most marvelously released without injury. In relating the story she said: “Near the close of the third day I was unbound, set on shore, and left to myself, amid the cries of wild beasts, still mysteriously left untouched by them. I made my way as best I could along the brier and bush entangled banks of the stream, till at length I reached the settlement in safety, and was permitted to labor a short time.”—Gospel in All Lands.