The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-18
MISSIONARIES SAIL,

The largest contingent of American
Negro missionaries to Africa sailed
on Saturday, August 2Sth, from New
York aboard the Cunard Liner Aquit-
ania, headed by Mrs. A. P. Camphor
widow of the late Bishop A. P. Camp
hor of the Methodist Episcopal
church. Besides Mrs. Camphor, the
party consisted by Mr. and Mrs. David
Starks, of Atlanta Miss Nahkateh E.
Williams of Mobile Miss Rosa E. Lee
Miss Diana B. Mcneil of Liberia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Starks have recently
graduated from the Cannon Theo-
logical Seminary, Atlanta, where they
made special study of mission work
as carried on by the Board of For
eign Missions of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church. Miss Nahkateh Will
liams served as nurse in the Lincoln
Hospital, New York City, and ranks
as a graduate nurse from that insti-
tuition. Miss Lee is a graduate of the
University of West Africa, a Metho-
dist institution located at Monroyia.
Liberia, and has been in this country
for some years completing her educa-
ton in mission work. Miss McNeill
was brought to this country as a child
of three years of age by Bishop Tay-
lor of Methodist church, and present
ed to the Methodist General Confer
ence. She has been educated in this
country, graduating from the Univer-
sity of Southern California last spring
after which she again appeared be-
fore the Methodist General Confer
ence in session at Des Moines, Iowa,
during the month of May. She has
been teaching mission work in the
Hampton Institute, since.
Miss Lee and Miss Mcneil will Join
the faculty of the University of West
Africa. Miss Williams will open a
dispensary in the city of Monrovia un-
der the Board of Foreign Missions of
the Methodist Church, and Mr. and
Mrs. Starks will settle at White
Plains, Liberia, where they will in
augurate the new program of mission
expansion there under the Centenary.
Mrs. Bishop Camphor is Treasurer of
the Liberia Missions, and will assist
Bishop E. w. Claire, who was one of
the first two Negro Bishops ever
elevated to the full title of the Epis-
copacy by the Methodist church. With
Bishop r. e. Jones, former Editor of
the Southwestern Christian Advocate,
he was elected by the General Con
ference at Des Moines in May. Bish-
op Claire will go to Liberia in No
vember.
Mrs. Camphor went with her hus-
band to Liberia as missionaries in
1896, remaining there twelve years,
after which the couple returned to
this country to take charge of Metho-
dist educational work among the Col
ored people in Alabama. In 1916 he
was elected Missionary Bishop to Lii
IBERIA, where he served until 1916,
when he was called to America to aid
in the great s11SOOO,OOO Centenary
drive. He died here in December last
Mrs. Camphor has been travelling
through the country lecturing in the
large Methodist Churches on Liberia,
and has been entertained by many
prominent people of both races.
Among the cities where she has been
honored are New Orleans, Baton
Rouge, Jackson, Miss; Washington,
Baltimore; Philadelphia, Camden.
Brooklyn, Boston, Stockbridge and
Pittsfield, Mass. She was mission
speaker in Boston at the great Wom-
ans Foreign Missionary Societys
Golden Jubilee last winter