El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-10-08

ed to have anything to do with the pc.
culiar people or religion they came "a
teach. Surrounded by the antiquities
of their race, they would not turn &C
accept the beliefs and manners of q
people whom they did not understand
and follow q life which was not consist
ent with their ways. They simply
looked the white man and sympathy
for his unhappy state.
Finally one young fellow in the camp
came forward to partake of the white
mans religion" and in the presence OF
a whole multitude he was converted to
Christianity. That boy was Tagoe, to-
day minister OF the gospel, and by
some strange working of fate q mis-
sionary from darkest Africa engaged
in the conversion of souls.
In preaching to St. Louis audience
the other evening the African minister
told the story of his life and the miracle
by which he was converted. He said
he had always been a heather, but
from some strange curiosity when the
missionaries came to the village he
went forward for prayer, to experience
what the white man could do and to
solve the mysteries of his religion. He
went forward and unveliever and be-
hold be came back converted man.
In telling of his miraculous conversion
the preacher said:
when felt that the hand of the
Lord was stretched out to me and be-
gan to feel L was saved man, L asked
for q sign to show me that / might
know 1 had the white mans religion -
The preacher told me to kneel down
and he would pray for me. We sll
went down on our knees, and while |
was there the whole room became as
dark as night. l could not see thing
before me. L became alarmed.
trembled all over and quaked with
fear Suddenly there came such u
white light rs l have never seen since,
and out OF that wonderful illumination
apperred q white-robed angel, who said
in a loud voice:
II will make thee teacher of many
nations.
Forthwith, got up feeling a new
fore, and went home to tell my folks
that | had been saved by the white
mans religion When | got back to
our hut, my mother became scared, 1
looked go pale. My brother fell on the
ground, and my mother all dou bled up.
Wherever / went everybody fell down
before me.
"When my father came home and
heard what had done, he said l would
have to give up the religion or go
away from his house. l said l would
90, but when l started my mother cried
so my father said | might live in his
home IL YOU would not talk to him.
Father said was crazy and should
travel for my health. He gave me the
money, and | went all over Africa
preaching the gospel, but the more |
travelled the worse | got, and here |
am today preacher. After several
years OF travelling | finally went to
Gloucester, England, where | attended
the university for 10 years. When |
came out I began to travel again,
and 1 have visited nearly every nation
on earth. | have been ID China twice,
India three times, England twice,
France five times, and to America
once. One month from now | will sail
for nv native land, and there | am GO
ing to spend the rest of my life among
nv people, carrying the word OF this
wonderful religion. The first place L
am going is 10 the Kings palace and
tell him he is a heather"
10 Jacobas, from where the African
missionary comes. there are those
same conditions which have existed
since creation. There the people wor
ship the moon and stars, and are guild
cd in all their actions by the movement
of the planets. Every fun moon is u
day of sacrifice, and then blood lows in