, 1892-02-10
THE LATE BISHOP URowTHER.
BY One who Knew Him.
From tho Barbados Tazpoyer.)

ecu DIV CdO1tGlu1h VI oNUJ ONh Ahop'
A great and good man has passed away at
the ripe age of eighty four, still active and
in harness. The early life OF this great mis-
sionary Bishop reads like a romance = a
romance deeply dyed with cruelty and sufs
tering.
Samuel Adiai Crowther, was a full blooded
NeQlo. born about the year 1903 in the coun-
try of the Youraba people-brtween the west
ern arm of the River Niger and the Sea Coast
on the West side OF Africa. At the age Of
thirteen young Adjai was captured along with
his mother and his two younger sisters, and
they were marched of as slaves to some neigh
bouring country where the boy was separa-
ted from his mother and two sisters with
whom he had the good fortune to meet some
months after, and whose company he was
allowed to enjoy for about three months before
another cruel separation. Young Crowther
was soon Laltered for q horse, but the BAL
rain not proving satisfactory be was sold and
Ultimately found himself OH the Coast along
with hundreds OF others. He was put in a
vessel bound for the western hemisphere
slono with lS6 others-another vessel left at
the same time with tie same human cargo.
These two slavers W ere captured by two Eng
lish cruisers. The vessel in which the fiji
ture Bishop was, reached bathurst in safety,
but the other persisted III Al storm. He was
mt to school at F%reetown, made rapid pro-
gross at his studies and was afterwards train
I'd as a carpenter. He accompanied some
kind friends Of his to England IN 1926 The
Church Missionary Society Aadalready maugu-
rated at Frretown the great educational
movem ent which eliminated III Fourah Bay
CoUere affiliated with the I'm yerslty of Dur
ham. and lie first Of the half dozen native
voutbs who entered on he roll Of the college
No.o,,f Al,oI rNxytha IIa
was made the principal of that college
~ 1879 and remained there in that capacity
for about nine years. 1t is gratifying to no
tice that several who came under his training
~ 4bis rpriod were afterwards ordained and
ornointed as Government Chaplains at i'm
n6L.,n+ stations along the West Coast of AT
In 184i. Bishop Crowther accompanied
mo axnedition undertaken by The British
Government for the purpose Of promoting
LEGITIMATE with the natives. The
exTDod;tion proved a failure-ovor one third
Of the Europeans died from fever. he was
,sntt +, ENGLAND. in lS42 for the purpose Of or
~dination. aud was ordained by DR.. Bloomfield,
ISsboD of London, the next year. lie then
,lrew himself heartily into missionary work
IN his return 10. Sierra Leone. lie begun
the Yourala Mission IN 1914, and the Niger
Mission III 1891. ne lhcC no uOth0 II 1oou-
lota IN l943, after a separation Of twenty five
vears The meeting Will be best given in his
oUn words when she saw me she trem.
blad She could not believe her eyes. We
aro cnod one anoi her, locking 1T each other with
silance and great establishment, big tears roll
;nT down her emaciated cheeks She
treTmhIea and held mo by the hand and called
no ~ the familiar names by which We'll re-
membsred | used to Ne called by my grand
mother who has since died III slavery. My two
sisters Who were captured with us are both
with my mother, who ;akes care OF theIn an"
her grandchildren in a small town not far from
here called Abaka. Thus snsoueht tor-a1ter
a search for ne had iaiied-God brought us
together again and turned our sorrow int0
Joy
In 1864. in Canterbury Cathedral, he was
consecrated FIRST Bishop Of the Niger Terrific
~. He also received the degree Of Doctor
Of Divinity from the University Of Oxford
His career has since been one ofdevoted laOonr
for God and for Africa. He established a
number of mission stations along the ban s OF
the Niger and a prosperous and encouraging
work is being carried OH by means OF native
agency. At an early age he was married 10
. most deserving young woman, and they en-
joyed a long and blissful union, by which they
were blessed by three sons and three oangn-
ters. His wife died a few years ago. One OF his