The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-12-13
WENT BACK.
A CoIored Christian Missionary
Who Turned lannibaE.
SHOCKING DOWNFALL
OF the Rev. Wi!bericrce, Who Has Eeen
Arrested for Bu:cherirg and Eating
tie Human BSiogs He 00ce
Tried to Convert in Dark
est Africa.
est Africa.

O: al the farcics ever eSo;vsd ir
the inasinirgs Of Rider HaGgsrd-o'
all the weird legends thas ever ctne
into the light cut Of TIE aa-kness
TIE African forests t1sre IS Zone
stranger than t!at o. tie Rev. D..
Daniel Flickiager Wiioerforce, Ct
Sierra -eore, occe nj sicnsry genera!
and row reported TO the war cEiaf
OF the Imperial t;i5e and dsvotee CT
csnnibali,m.
In the whole history CT missionary
labor snong tie races o. the Z iSs tae
story OF this yene erao.e pastor o. seven
ty years, sometime called Bishop o.
TIE Church Ct the U0iIs6 b.etaren 0
Amer c., who, scco, dig cc many de
tailed dispatches, after io-tg years O.
missionary life. reverted cy a gradual
process Ct avati>n to his natural state
OF pagan and canaioal, stands with
out a parallel.
Wherever missionary work IS
known, wherev:r gccd men aod vo-
men labcr through many years ftrthe
conversion OF their oeniGh5ec brethren
in Inci., & ia CT Africa the s'erJ Is
told and re;old with lanen1asion.
Scientists ard c1iuin>lceis:s tie
world over will accept the retrceIeS-
sion Of this missionary, famous
through the East for bis elcq1erce
and learning, to the va, paint ot his
tribe a"d 8 dinner Of tumae Il sh, as
esta bi:Shing TIE eternal truth that the
original beast il one savage caa never
be ouei,ed in centuries OF civilization
and that Mr. Wilaerforce, secretly
hungering thr. ugh forty years OF re
preston OF bis natural self for TIE
flesh for which his bi"od craved, anc
the idols Of. his fo1e'athers, has but
obeyed the law ci bis nature
But the good men sad women OF
the white and c1lored races who
through lorg life have lsbo-ed with
blind, ceaSless, single hearted devotion
for the enlighte- mant OF tie heathen,
stand aghas5 ana IN fscs Of this aw.
ful living spectacle OF degeceracy ask
themselves whether their labor #
centuries is, after eli, labor spent IN
vain, and whether it is indeed, the
imnutable law OF nature THAI toe
savage strain once implanted in the
heart can nevar be wiped out.
Throughout this country the story
has struck deep into the hearts OF the
ministers OF al! creedS, and OF those
who give bounteously Of their wealth
and substance to she'd the light o.
civilization on dsrkeaed places. Aud
over their hearts and the hearts OF the
p'ous men and women Of W,lbeIforcs's
race hangs tlack psll c. gloom acc
stane and doubt Of the future.
For two generations had NJ. Viii
berforce stood ss ths ezenplac for all
young negro students Of divinity Of
the heights to which they themSelv:s
might reach in the pursuit OF tEejr
sacred nissioE; and for the n ;ssicn.
aries OF the VIII e race he servsd as q
beacon whenever their beartS failed
them in the stu2enoous wo OF con-
version CT the West Afs;c4n savage.
To thousands Of his fellows landing il
West Africa, fresh from these shores,
he has been as dear aod venerable
frien1, rich in experience as in learn
ing and eru6it:on; an adviser and guide
in tie first few troubled months OF
their adventure.
Aud now, back at home in America,
or in England, or lab ,rir9 Still IN the
wild, they look blaI sly at each other
and ask how in the Dane OF Heaven
such things can be.
As il in reply fall the words OF the
old man to bis cspsors as be was leo
to the prison st Sierra Leone, there
to await his trial Tor carnibalisn.
titan to die Is is well, I S! al
die in the faith OF my fathers-ane
faith that YVES born thousands upon
thcrsanGs OF years ago and which al
your Christian teachings have not
driven out. The forty years in which
I lived In your fai,h were forty years
OF living lie. The vo;css CT ny faith
ers, OF my pscple whom I had desert
ed in my YOUTH, CT tie gods that I
had worshipped, were ever calling to
me to end my days as I had begun.
Ard at last l heard and went back. :"
The good men with whom his life
had besn passed pleaded with him,
even with tears, up to the very gates
OF the prison to return to the faita
that he had abjuSe5.
And now they urge, with some
anger, tnat the stern action OF the
Missionary BDard Of the Uniteo Breth
ren at Dayton, OHIO, in SUM narily
expelliDg him on evidence OF his re-
PROGRESSION precipitased the final
downfall.
a Fathers SACRIFICE.
Well might Tie word Of nissionar
les wall over his loss, for his story
reads like rarely beautiful rona2c=
OF olden tines.
It vas in the days OF half century
agone, VIXEN the light Of civilization
was drawing in darkest Africa, that
the great chief OF toe Imperial Jribs,
the most powerful warlike OF those
tim IS, and the R:v. Samuel Flicking
er, pioneer anoly tae missionaries Of
the United B:etcren, net in solemn
conference TO acrarg ga treaty OF com
msrce and peace. From that time the
friendship OF uhe ief for the eltau-
siast:c young nj sionaries Warned and
grew deeper with the years.
Too old to change the faith OF his
ancestors, he said he would make 70
ef ,rt to inpsde the work Of the mis-
sionsries among his people. Probab
" the aged chief saw the conner
cial value ct good, friendly under
standing with the gentlemen who were
in position to bring him so mach
good trade from England and Ane-i-
e..