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1 ,, 'Fk 'F_ -4,4 U "` " ''' 1 1 -excepts fom Anna Coope, of o Sky Pot 78 c N A OPE, YP T the Sah Blas ndans : tt-1 : ;" lan g-plac, as the bt av, almost l^ :- meately nd we le The ~oat was la -;t,:,, ' tfn the ne we cae up o so that wslept,2~t j AS9 O ':4 '"en pn t thoug thee yas not mu oom,5 't4 ' /t s ted the ls bet than lyg on the CHAPTER V t ;,!> /be h and the wee 5e to slee MY ADVENTURES N A LAUNCH vj -,w~e -t p a n my a al a Bolva ty found antty omal tng whj the colpo e A FTER two months at Babadoes stated f:,zt >- / had sen y som ndans at he knew ved fo the sthmus of Panama, and not hav- E;1 Y Fpt ; / n Sa sdo/ n one f my lette was a ng eceved any answe to my lette to the ;, t ; - clppg fo a el ous pape about a mssonay nqung about the Panamanans, wo an m onay Colon, epublc t - '3 ':, wote tosome of the membes of the Chs ; -'4:, P ama, o was : ' ng to the anaman, tan Msson nqung f they knew of any - ng ppyes foe On magn the ndans aound thee to whom the gospel had h1 ;, t ~, pape e sende had wtt: "Ths ay be not been peached, and they epled that they ja j; of n est to u" '' w te at o to the had seen some' walkng along the steets of a ssnay a also ma pepaons to go Colon, baefoot and poo lookng, who ev- 4H4j fj ba to Ba does, foy gls e not wl dently had not been eached by any msson 4- to go though /any mo expees ay; J- * among ans left B va Cty ay When eached Colon ' found, that the st, 19 havng b enn Ve zuea x ly sx woman to whom had fst wtten had been 4k} t months went st to ndad, w ee la- sent to Jamaca fo he health, whch pob 9, : boed two mo s n te Cht Msson, ably accounted fo my not heang fom he and then etued to Babadoes t nqung futhe, found a Methodst mn- " ste n Panama- Cty who sad that he had ' had sx t men n hs house fom the San Blas - / n j 'j c:, :-:', t",''-' ' ' P ' R:-,' a - : ' '- ;' vxj~ ; ~, ~, ', ' ',,, * ' " 7 '' f a

2 o - 80 ANNA COOPE, SKY PLOT 9 coast, one a chef and the othe an ex-chef, who had pleaded wth hm to send a teache to them, a woman, because no whte man was allowed to stay on the slands ove nght : The ex-chef, John Davs; had left hs boy of eleven wth the mnste, and as he bought ~ja~~~- t P hm to me spoke to my fst San Blas ndan At last had found ndans who wanted a teache, and moe than that a woman teache l was eady to go at once, but thee was stll a delay had dffculty n gettng a passage on any of the tades' vessels The plea was that the boats wee not ftted fo passenges One man sad that the mssonaes would spol hs tade "Spol you tadel" exclamed "We ae not tades; what could we do to hut you :: tade?" As he dd not answe added: "Of t t:5 4, -, a t-, ::": couse f you sell um to the ndans shall : cetanly do my best to spol that tade" He made no answe agan, because he was gulty He took t by baels to sell to those people That tade has been stopped now, howeve, am thankful to say f} g fnally secued passage to Nombe-de- ' '% ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ' :, W9 VX z o p -!t L L v: n nc C q F- V, a: t '~~ ' ~~~~ ('- '4': a!,': : 1! "' :,, 1 ;, ~ ~~~~~ :, ~~~~,, '': t' t

3 tl - t t : ADVENTURES N A LAUNCH Dos on the Amecan tug that went thee daly fo sand fo the foundaton of the Gatun,Locks Whle watng thee fo futhe tanspotaton peached Jesus and scatteed tacts to a few who could ead Ths oused the e of the Roman Catholc pest, who stood afa off one day when was holdng an open-a meetng Some of hs flock wee n dangel He took the tacts and toe them up, scatteng them along the steet At the end of a fotnght a small gasolne launch gong up the coast stopped at Nombede-Dos and secued passage on t When the pest found that, a Potestant, was gong to the ndans wth that deadful book, the Bble, gong whee some of hs bethen had ted n van to ente, he was fuous He ted to pesuade the captan not to take me, but as my thngs wee aleady aboad the launch and seveal wee thee to see me off, sad to the captan: "You'd bette not touch my baggagel Those people aound us ae Amecans; and Amecans can do thngsl" He laughed and sad: "Well, the pade does " ' not want you to go up to the ndans" C :, ~~~~~~~~~ 8 '' ' c ';,,

4 h N 82 ANNA COOPE, SKY PLOT ADVENTURES N A LAUNCH 83 "Neve mnd the pade;" sad decdedly launch The next foenoon we aved n " am gong up on you launch to those people because God wants me tol" Ro Dablo, the Devl Rve, n the Depatthe vcnty of two slands nea the mouth of Thee was much palaveng between hm ment of Colon The chef of the smalle and the pest, but kept quet and payed, sland came on boad the launch He'coulda lttle Englsh and asked me whee gong aboad the launch and takng my seat speak next to the pest because thee was no othe was gong told hm to Mona, whch s place to st Stll the boat dd not go; they about foty mles fathe west n the Depatment of Panama wee watng fo me to change my mnd But thee was no pospect of thatl The "Why wll you not stay hee and teach us? Amecans who had watched the poceedngs We want to lean Englsh ;" he sad thus fa came up to the launch and sad: "So "But you have the pests hee;" emnded you ae gongl" hm "Yes, 'm off" He sad that the pests dd no good, and "t eally doesn't seem safe :" "Look out fo yet he bowed to my fellow-passenge and j that man; he s vey angy" "That pest wll ham you f he can" These wee some of the comments; but as they wee n Englsh, whch the pest dd not undestand, he dd not get the meanng unless he judged by actons and looks; whle as fo me, my mnd was made up and thee was no tunng back, whateve the dange mght be Fnally they stated, wth me on boad We stopped at seveal small vllages on the manland and slept that nght on the ~~~~~~~~,~, kssed hs hand He sad that the pests had ' been on the sland fo seveal yeas, but none,: of the chlden could ead o wte; they only taught them to pay to the sants told ths chef that John Davs wanted me to come to Mona, and asked hm about the chef on the othe sland as we lay anchoed n the bay between the two slands He sad that he was hs nephew, that hs name was Chales J Robnson, and that he was away on the manland wokng on hs plantaton, ''' : ^ : '; f t f'e, s f, sl ( -l u 1 k ( s1 z! t,, J :-1 "' 1m1 ' - c; - Y

5 l : k f;, 84 ANNA COOPE, SKY PLOT ADVENTURES N A LAUNCH so dd not meet hm The chef wth whom gave hm the photogaph of hs son whch 1: h'g 5,; talked' was Joe Hadng the Methodst mnste n Panama had 1,; sent The pest who had come up the coast ' thus by me, and he seemed glad to see t and asked about hm he engaged two ndan men to go on wth us to Whle John Davs and wee talkng the t ce ~ '"Mona, gvng them fles fom a box of twelve two ndans who came up on the launch had :! ~4 s - whch he had wth hm The last wods called the people nto the chef's house and whch he sad to them as he owed away fom we wee summoned to come thee too Thee the launch wee: "Pelea po m," "Fght ( was a geat cowd; t looked as though the fo me," and some of the men sad: "These : whole sland was thee was seated by the A,~~t;' ndans wll kll you;" tellng me what they sde of the chef, whle John Davs, beng an had head hm say sad: "Neve A mnd; ex-chef-now second chef-sat at any left 1 tust n God and He wll keep me safely" The cowd was n font of us, the two'messen- " The captan swoe and sad that was gong ges, each wth a fle, at the font lookng,:2v ' to get hm nto touble; he wshed he had not vey 4 mpotant and tyng to mpess me wth!o C bought me the mpotance But was vey busy look,c:* We left the bay n the aftenoon and a- ng at the women and babes and efused to LA 1 ved at Mona about fve o'clock the same be popely mpessed Thee seemed to be' 1 ' p;*- ' day The ndans of couse got a boat and an endless chan of women and gls, each wee taken to shoe befoe was, and as soon wth a baby on he hp - ' as could get a man that undestood Spansh When eveybody came to ode John Davs tjt-'~1~ '' o Englsh- used ethe language as the case spoke He told the chef that had come to '': ṭ '{;'~~ '-: demanded- : : nqued fo John Davs One" teach them the Bble and how to ead and t,?? " '' 'of the men ponted hm out on the beach and wte n Englsh, as they wanted that lan-' 18 $f~ owed me to hm As John could speak good guage Wth evey few wods,a the chef, t Englsh we wee soon chattng eagely gunted, as dd eveybody afte hm, and 1 ' '' : t 1 j :, : : -; ; t ' j c 1' S ttsx l ; "' ' qlt~q':' ' :e''',-'"' ; ''',''',X''# S' '"' '",;' E -' : ); - t : `` *l ''!1; B -- ''t? ' M 4,S '1

6 *, * *_:J'1 1,4 J '4 ~: 86 ANNA COOPE, SKY PLOT ADV' ENTUES N A LAUNCH 87 fnally the tenson was gettng so geat that, gunted too and felt bettel do not know whethe the whole stoy was told, fo t seemed to me that n the mddle of t thee was a sudden beak, the two men jumpng to the feet, :t: and cyng; "Peleal peleal peleal" Evey ; ; one took up the cy, and felt lke dong the?t: *:: same, so geat was the exctement, only felt that must watch poceedngs, so sat stll,! as dd also the two chefs When the confuson stopped asked John what t all meant ; "Oh, whte lady;" he sad, " am soy, but 3h you cannot stay hee The pade has told 1 'Q Ptt 9 these two men that you ae a bad woman and :?up p 4t;:;! :, t we must not let you stay" had no thought of beng sent away n ths P1 peemptoy fashon wthout at least a potest a5s undestood the nfluence at wok and how c these smple-mnded, people had been nflu ;, enced aganst me, but would not go wthout ' a plea fo them to hea me, so asked John c Davs f he could not quet the people so that, W514ll l : L of * : M tney would lsten to what he had to say about ' * ::me The ndans wee gatheed n clustes ;;-q:""jl -- and wee all talkng at once, hee, thee, and '' ': 'yonde t was vey nteestng and exctng The women wee talkng too, of couse, though what the atttude was dd not fnd out untl late Whle watng fo the decson was estful egadng the whole matte and payed to God to oveule Fnally John sad: "You had bette gol These two men wll kll you f you do not" He had hadly spoken the wods when one of the wllng-to-be mudees caught me by the wst and pulled me fom my seat and pushed me fowad Then found out wthout any questonng what the women's atttude towad me was They sceamed when passed them, pulled the chlden out of my way as f would contamnate them, spt at me and made faces could not help thnkng of the way many so-called Chstans teat a woman of the steet, shnkng fom even the touch of he clothng These ndan women ae made up of the same snful tendences and can show them when they ae nd povocaton They wee not gong to be contamnated by the touch of such a one as 1 n the mdst of all ths tumol, nstead of * * * *, - ' 4 o a ll -, 0 ; F l s41, P, / 1' ':

7 t: j +4 -ftf- ; 88 ANNA COOPE, SKY PLOT :, 89 ( : J ;?, ~? : -: -t :, havng fea was vey conscous of the pesence of God, and sad to myself: "Ths must :-: be one of the 'all thngs' that can bea though Jesus' help dd not undestand, : ' but could tust God and dd CHAPTER V C; : As the man who was leadng me put me nto BACK TO COLON ~, the canoe he was so excted that he tpped t n such a way that t flled half full of wate, THE launch whch had bought me thus f so thee sat up to my shoe-tops n wate fa had to go up the coast thee days' ' : As thee was no accommodaton on the launch jouney, and as thee was no othe boat by lj ;except to t n one place day and nght, whch could etun to Colon had to go on could do nothng but st stll and let my clothalso When went aboad at Nombe-de t! ng dy as t could But thee ae wose Dos had caed only a lttle luncheon n thngs than that, and dd not catch cold o my bag, fo expected to be at my destnaton *'[~( ' have the feve, as some of the cew sad n a few hous, but t took the bette pat of?': would The captan fankly sad he hoped two days The second day had asked fo - would de fom the exposue; but the snne's -- some of the ce and feshly caught fsh that : hopes ae van, My hope was n God, and the cew wee cookng only a few feet fom : ': t t ' - ' He dd not fal me me, but they would nethe gve no sell any L Hq! f: of the food, so was hungy yet not suffeng 1: t ; had pat of what my Fathe had pomsed C :,: ; '1 ' ' me to keep up my stength, namely, wate,,1 f : so dank that and thanked Hm, feelng sue!!r1 "thatthe bead would come late, because God 1 1: ' has sad: "Hs bead shall be gven hm; hs : ; wates shall be sue" Not havng had 'the " :t (seveal pages s kpped descbng' Coodpe' s ; ', ;1' tp backto Cọlon) ' ' ': '",L ':at Nagana,,Pade Gasso gets /boad :' - ' "::':, : - ;,:- ~~ ', t ; l - ;g: K k V

8 0 :: 4*pc"~t ~tf l : :j J f 1 ~!, 94 ANNA COOPE, SKY PLOT BACK TO COLON 95 1 ndans, lttle deamng that n both of them, fath, no elgon; that dd not eat the body 1 thee would some day be Bble schools and of the Lod Jesus, so had no lfe He sad 4 l ; that would wte ths stoy n the oom n that had no busness to come up to the nj one of the houses whch the pade used fo hs dans; that he and hs assocates had come to 4! bedoom t neve enteed my thoughts that ' gve them the tue elgon and that must the houses bult by the'-enemes of the tuth not ntefee He was so excted, so angy would one day be unde my contol and'be evdently to fnd me alve afte my tp up ~!:f used fo speadng God's tuth; but we walk a by fath, not seeng the path ahead but tust t the coast, that he went ove and ove hs state ments and denuncatons, not knowng how to ng all to ou Heavenly Fathe dd have fath that should come back thee agan, Fnally asked the pest f he had fn- (1 1' but God n bngng me back has done the shed; that f he had had somethng to say; "exceedng abundantly" above all that asked and then lfted up my heat to God n paye ~ ', o thought 1 to help me to speak wsely, to weld the Swod We had not saled moe than thee hous, : of the Spt so that my lstene mght feel camped up n the launch so closely that ou ( ts powe Holdng the Book out towad hm, knees touched, when the pade spoke to me sad: "S, come to these ndans to teach f~- had been sttng all ths tme wth my Bble them to ead God's Wod, whose entance n Englsh and Spansh open on my lap, and bngeth lght" As held t out gpped lf'~ 4t1 the pest could not help seeng t and eadng t tghtly, feang that he would lft hs hand t f he caed to to thow t nto the wate He dd thow out!4 : ' "Do you speak Spansh?" he asked, and hs hand towad t, exclamng sconfully, epled couteously: "Yes, s," not of couse "El Potestante' usng the ttle "fathe', : "Yes;" sad, "ths Book does potestl t Then he opened the battey of hs abuse potests aganst many of the doctnes of you He sad that was no good; that had no Chuch t fobds the makng and woshp- stop ' & a B ' l ; ',,:~~~~~~~~ %:, ) :, -, :~~~~~~~~~~ ' z,

9 0 A Flo, &Ubl h", :t ;! 1 BACK TO COLON 97 ;_,-1~11 96 ANNA COOPE, SKY PLOT :? ng of gaven mages You lft up the V- Jesus only came to these ndans to tell '{ l,, X j gn, the Pope, scapulas, osaes, holy wate them ths, and you have done you best to _ R 'k 2 ', and a wafe god We peach Jesus Chst, pevent me But, s, mak my wods, be- ~: ' the Savou of the whole wold Jesus hm- cause beleve God shall be back hee agan, _ag '- self sad: ', f be lfted up fom the eath, wth ths Book, to teach ths people shall 1f toe ;-' wll daw all men unto Myself' He dd not be n and you wll be outl" Tuly ths was say that Hs Mothe would do ths, o Sant a pophetc utteance, fo t has been fulflled ; 2, '2 Pete o Sant John They ae dead, but to the lette, wth moe added Now am ';4, Jesus s alve foevemoe Hs blood n and he s out *- ' cleanseth fom all sn He says: ' am the The pade squmed and twsted, but thee way and the tuth and the lfe: no one cometh was no chance to get away He dd stand up unto the Fathe but by Me' as f to pass me, and would have had to move! "Now, s, f you would ead God's Wod sdeways n ode to let hm, but dd not; stood up too, and wth the Wod of God open j:, ; and obey t you would have ths lfe n you n my hand quoted passage afte passage ' ; You say that do not eat the body of Jesus, felt a specal uncton n my soul; ths was ;O ' t s tue that do not put a wafe n my my hou to glofy God, to lft up Jesus to ths mouth, no let any man deceve me by dong man; he had a chance to eceve the lght f, 11 [ L ;, t, and then call that a god t may be you he would He ted to get by me to go to '" god, but my God' s n heaven, and by fath the hold, but kept on quotng Scptue to : n the atonng blood of Jesus shed on the coss fo me have the lfe of God now n my soul hm, and when he dd sdle by me and pee : ' - down nto the dak hole as f vey anxous And ths news s too good to keep to myself; about hs luggage, followed and talked ' have fo yeas been tellng to Englshmen, - eanestly My soul seemed to be on fe fo ' :: Spanads and ndans that Jesus only can God, and gave hm a clea, staght exhosave No Chuch, no ceed, no ceemony,,;4} no sant, no wate no wafe, can do t; t s "'l Vl,, ::-'? ::'' - taton; he could not get away fom t 1~ f,ez 1t, bt-

10 ~v t 6 98 ANNA COOPE, SKY PLOT : BACK TO COLON 99 head that he aftewad etuned to Span " want to go and tell them of Jesus who 1 4 and ded thee God's wod does not etun ded fo them," answeed; and though to Hm vod, so that the seed sown on that had told hm the whole stoy of my dese to launch may have bone fut to hs savng; teach the ndans, he seemed so nteested that do not know t had to be e-told Then peached :told the pade that should epot hs Jesus to hm and told hm how God's Wod teatment of me to the Pesdent of Panama, s a lamp to ou feet and a lght to ou path 'e, ;' and dd when eached the cty, and had "We all need t You need t as Pesdent n! hs sympathy dd not go to hm fo sympathy, howeve, but to get a lette as an off wants to save you; f you ead Hs Wod and gudng the affas of ths Republc God 4tVN cal passpot whch would let me go nto any obey t He wll save you now" pat of the Republc n safety The Pes- He seemed nteested, and just pased 1A,~ dent-who s now dead-sad that the pade God fo ths pvlege of beng bought befoe ules fo the tuth's sake He told me dd not do ght n theatenng me ana senang the men to thwat my plans, and that he that f a cetan offcal would wte such a e would be glad to gve me a lette of com- lette as wanted he would sgn t, and was 1 mendaton, but that needed no passpot; the usheed nto the pesence of one of Rome's Republc was fee emssaes, felt sue The Pesdent sent " know that," epled, "but some othe one of hs sevants to tell ths mpotant pepeople do not seem to know the ghts and son my eand, so was nvted to tell hm pvleges that belong to a fee epublc, and the whole stoy want a lette to teach them" "Do you not know," he sad as fnshed, He smled andsad: "Bave lttle womanl "that the educaton of Panama s unde the - But why do you want to go among the n- Roman Catholc Bshop?" dans? They ae vey teacheous; would "Oh, then seel" Ths was an explanaton not go up thee fo anythng" n a few wods of a powe had to combat : ' ~~~~~~,, - : \ ;:: ` ' : "'' ' ;: :t ", : 1A f '' ' '' '', 1,,:

11 - * -~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ( ^ loo ANNA COOPE, SKY PLOT "Yes, and f you want a lette you must go to hm" "ndeedl Then Rome has ts foot on the neck of the Panama Republc so that t s not ; fee afte all l", ' "Relgously, no The elgon of Panama : Pt ',, s Roman Catholc" ' "Then do you thnk the Bshop would gve,1 me a lette?" ', "No" "Then why do you send me to a man who you know wll efuse my equest when t s n you powe to gant t, and the Pesdent sad that he would ndose the lette f you wote t?" felt that t was a plan on the pat of both to put me off, but t gave me an oppotuntyto speak to them about Jesus and to magnfy the Wod of God "We wll nethe help you no hnde you offcally," was hs answe "f you want to go to the ndans you must fght-you way though" ::' "Thank you, s, wll," epled; "but won't cay fles o pstols, but the Swod of the Spt, whch s the Wod of God" Chef Robnson's House Open doo leads to stoe The Alnecan as well as the Panama flag foms pat of the decoatons _ ' ^ ~ ~~' ' - ;,,, ' ~ -, ':,,,!, ',,,,, :: ~~~~ts"n~_ The "San Blas"-the Panama govenment steame and down the noth coast whch pls up 1 S - t- t ': Cw, bl - 1 (Coope woks n an uban msson'f a few months She then tavels to Mexco ad the U,S n 1912 she etuns and aanges fo people to nfom he f Chaly Robnson,':vsts the cty) -

12 [ 5 ;' J1 ' - 3 :; o6 ANNA COOPE, SKY PLOT '- : ~ -AT RO DABLO : ~ v : ": 'A : 107 :f ~1 Whle was watng fo news gatheed up to the leade, fo they walked sngle fle, n -3 my oom a class of young lads who wanted asked f he wee Chef Robnson of Ro? %-; f'' to lean Englsh, one of whom could speak t Dablo (, " : vey well and acted as ntepete; hs home "Yes, am" tqj! was only sx mles \fom Chef Robnson's "Do you want a teache to come to you ' sland, and he was watchng fo the chef sland and teach you people the Bble and talked of Jesus, and the young man sad, Englsh?" asked "The ndans have the own elgon; they "Yes, do When can you come?" was the do not want to lean about yous; theyonly pompt eply ;: ', ' want you to teach them to ead and speak That was busness and ejoced my heat, ' ;,': Englsh so that they can make plenty of money and answeed: "Now" He smled and saddl;', ( '1 j lke the Amecans"'- that would be all ght L ' 2 : "s " wll go back wth you that so ndeed?" epled "Well, f f you say so," cp~ $ 41 they wll lsten to me and lean about Jesus, suggested, anxous to seze the oppotunty :' ::: jj some day they wll walk on golden steets "You could not vey well, fo my canoe and have moe than any Amecans can gve wll be so loaded," he answeed "You had tf: :t "' them" talked eanestly to the lads evey bette come on one of the lage schoones" :1 tme they came; that was my busness fo my sad that would be qute satsfactoy to! : th :n Januay, 1913, was told that Chef He sad that he been taken by the captan of :!" Kng me, and we talked togethe fo a few mnutes : :!:~ ~ '!z :t!:h Robnson would be n'on the 7th, so n the one of the tadng vessels when he was nne C:t monng was down at the whaf, and saw yeas old to a place called Old Povdence,: 1 t~ j hm and two othe men just gong acoss to nea Jamaca The captan's name was Rob- the Govenment Buldng to get a pass on the nson, so he named the boy ChalFs Julus '''! aload to vst Panama Cty My heat Robnson He sent hm to school fo thee 1: beat fast fo joy; ths was my hou Gong " yeas, so' that he leaned to ead, wte and 1 1E f ', ;, - l;,y - :j; :s R 1J A, 7: :-: -:' ' ' "', o ' 1, 1 s c t '' ; '":Y; ( : L1 6 m m

13 V4 T -A, " ',":?, 46? ~': ' ~; 1 1P!2 '"?' '5 '~~;t : t'o8 ANNA COOPE, SKY PLOT speak Englsh, and at the age of twelve he went to sea, tavelng on the schoones to Yok, New Nova Scota and othe places When about twenty-fve he etuned to hs home, was maed, settled down, and was soon aftewad apponted second chef, then chef at the death of the old chef, Heny Clay - Dung the egn of Chef Clay the Roman Catholc pest came and somehow got n Many wee aganst hm, but Chef, Robnson was one who was n favo of havng hm stay because he wan:ted hs chlden to be educated The people helped hm to buld the vey house that now occupy, the pest supplyng the galvanzed on fo the oof and sdes and the ndans cuttng down tees and haulng most of the wood, each helpng a lttle n gfts and n fee labo "We ae soy that we eve let the pest n, howeve,"- sad the chef "Ou chlden have not leaned, anythng but to' chant to mages, sants and the Vgn was taught to ead the Bble and want my chlden to lean to ead t am glad that you wll' come" : We pated-then and went to my oom to _,:,,,,1 e,,~ ' AT RO DABLO' begn packng, my heat sngng fo monng joy One a week late was awakened ealy by a knock, and on openng the doo thee saw ndans, one of whom pushed velope an nto enmy hand opened t and ead: San Jose Nagana, Feb 2nd, 1913 ' ' Dea lady sent my 3 ndans to Bng you up to San - Bas Coas to my county My to see people you lke Dea lady f you can Engles By A and B Bng C Book you Pano up wth moe you fo Pesent no M Chales J Robnson - How much that lette meant to mel hee and wee the thee lvng ed ndans watng fo me to speak the wod Had not ou answeed God paye? hastly stapped and oped thngs wth the ad of the ndans, then to the canoe we went t was the lagest canoe the chef had, but was vey small fo us to weathe heavy seas n, and had head much about the oughness of the sea at ths season But beleved that God would oveule the sea 'and eveythng else' Howeve, my fend n Colon came : down to the whaf just as we stated out and ' called to the men not to take me, the wnd ' o ' ", :;;, * ; 7, 4 *S "',' CX~,: -W:;, ',oe ' 4 t A - -,, ',! ' : ' '' ' ' "' W~~~~: ' " :'' %d

14 ,, F - ~~~~, - ' :,,,, 11 :,-, " *-v' -kt",,"' f' el,z - " ' ~-,;-; : t E; s 1no ANNA COOPE, SKY PLOT AT RO DABLO F was so changeable So we put back to shoe lsh ( have snce found that he was one of the at' ' ' and the men put off one of my tunks, a deck vtwo who dagged me off fom Mona sland), : : cha and a box of canned foods, then they ' and he sad, "Chef Robnson sent us fo you; e -A;';went on wated two weeks and then secome now," so just stepped off' of the cued passage on the two-masted schoone the schoone nto the canoe and we wee off lke <a ;" - "Agnes E" ; a shot A few hous' salng and we landed e f' 'e, ', 'We wee nne days gettng fom Colon to : 1 safely at homel 1 : ] "' '':, the fst goup of the San Bas slands, and as - Of couse the whole vllage was out, and the'captan had busness to attend to of couse was gacously eceved by the chef and hs" ; had to wat untl t was fnshed But was ' bothe Alfed, who also could speak Eng-' :: ~:'; '4 t; ~' : ;qute comfotable and smply felt that could lsh sat n the stoe, fo, by the way, Chef est fo a lttle We wee now about ffteen ' ' Lp Robnson had and stll has qute a gocey and, '' --,, ',, : '- 'mles fom Ro Dablo Dung the day the dy-goods stoe, and fo two hous was, t- : l,; :' ndans came aboad, and opened my "p- mght say, on exhbton The chef had an ~e; 9 ano"-the foldng baby ogan-and played old on stove n whch he buned logs when ',0 ; 'Thecaptan and cev who could speak Eng- he wanted to cook afte the whte man's style,! C lsh sang the Moody and Sankey hymns and : : and hee my dnne was pepaed, o athe A;~ ''we spent a pleasant tme But the news my beakfast, fo although t was now afte 'g' * spead that a whte woman was on boad who ' : noon had not eaten But then must suffe was gong to Chef Robnson's sland, and '' ' some nconvenences, even as these people wee 5 : 2'1: :-ealy : : on the monng of the tenth day out we dong to have me thee n the home Afte "" wee awakened by the splash of oas and a -, a meal of somethng fed n gease and soup '1 t " : "voce callng: 'A es the Mss a?" of some knd, and some eggs fed tll they ":, "Yes," answeed n Spansh; " am hee," esembled sole leathe, and some knd of 'fo was qute sue that was the Mss who black lqud to dnk, all of whch took, ': '' "~'-~ ':l ", was meant- One of the men could speak Eng- "askng no questons fo conscence' sake," 5,, '-,,, ' - A, t- -~ hị: ), ' 1 ' _t 0;, t v : ' ' *( ;a - 1 L

15 V4 _F- - k! _-C AF,, :, Z'p l y ' -1 L- ---, KL,ll -W --_, - 4Q't!l - ;-, - A,,,,,,,,, t:4l nz2 ANNA COOPE, SKY PLOT AT RO DABLO 113,4,;W1t felt bette able to walk, as was expected to Soldes," was the ode of execses that fst do afte that feast, to see the sghts of the Sunday n San Blas We mached and coun town Then was taken to my new home, a temached aound the schooloom; :the s- <5a5 : natve house wth palm-leaf oof and bamboo eathen floo was humpy, but t dd not mat- "g, walls The chef had sad to me, "We have tel My school was composed of all ages,^ j, 'no house fo you to lve n," and had an- Thee wee totteng old men; Olbebeah, the' sweed, "Oh, the same knd of house that the chef's gandfathe, was sad to be ove a hun ; natves lve n wll do fo me", ded; and wnkled gandmothes, and md- - 4!g So ths was my homel One cone was a- dle aged and young maed women also, each' "gl anged fo my sleepng oom, and thee the wth a chld staddled on he hp Logs /,ndans jf'l hung my hammock They cooked wee bought n, and they sat on these when b t fo me untl the schoone came up fou days they wee not machng; but kept them g-/wj Tafte : bngng my household effects petty lvely, and they wee equal to the octj{ : ; aved on the sland on Fday, Febu- cason Shtless boys came n to mach; we!j 3ay 28th, and stated school the next monng had geat tmes n those ealy daysl A pa p j Befoe sunse was awakened by voces call- ot came evey day and leaned to sng, "Onng my name Hee wee my scholas eady wad, Chstan Soldes" Afte he had : : fo school so we began at once and contnued sung he would laugh at hs own smatness, Djlk S-t fo eght hous; then the chef sad that they and of couse we laughed too used hm to ' wanted nght school, so fo anothe fou hous spu the boys on by sayng, "Dea me, the pawe ected and sang A, B, C, and went though ot has beaten all of you " ' o~ all knds of execses, untl deamed of hands The chef came to the school evey day gd ;'~ ; -and feet and faces all mxed up wth lettes to tell the scholas what wanted them to do, :- and ed ndans and leaned a few ndan wods so that -The next day beng Sunday,- taught them could make them undestand some' thngs, A2, John 3 x_6that, and: "Onwad, Chstan and so fo thee months we had school thee :; :"` f V : ;' :; ' ',H~ ;;, :' ' a %':',~'~: -:, ';: -', - "', Ws,H;,,~~, ;,: :', ', X ' ' ' t }-'4 ' t :1' ~~~~~~~j :: -~~~~~~~~~~~~~ b:'" ~ ~ -'C-;C *' V f t - 'E ''`' 3S~~ ~~~~, -11, 1-, 1, -', -, - - -,,-, ~~~ L,t: ' L= Y A p" -

16 - s/ -,,,, * ;,, ~:~ :--;' ' w,,~ - 4 ANNA COOPE, SKYPLOT AT RC ) DABLO 5 1,f,: tmes a day seven days n the week On Sun wth me, that h mg ht see the cty and hea day nght t was dffeent Then had the' Englsh spoken all th e tme bought many chef ntepet the stoes: n the Gospels of thngs fo school use and also a new theean oven - :* 'Jesus and Hs love, and the people leaned buneol-stove wth ' - many hymns The ogan was a geat attac- Ths ol-stove cealted a sensaton' on the ton only played t on Sunday nghts, sland Agan and ; agan had to demonthat wondeful fe-box patly to help make the sevce nteestng, state the lghtng of and patly because when was teachng thee Chefs and the bod 2 y-guads came fom fa was no oom to move my ams, the space was and nea to see the s tove-and the lady who so lmted owned t, pehapsl-t o hea the chlden sng Dung the fst thee months of my stay n Englsh, and to l sten to the ogan f * the house whch the pests had fomely used had had a movng pc tue machne cetanly was occuped by a man whom they call a could have gotten son ne nteestng scenes * Chstan Bothe, not a pest, but a mem- n a couple of weel ks the chef had sent fo be of one of the odes who teaches He an ol-stove just lke mne He told me that had a few boys evey day, but as my school all the women sad t} e evl was n t They gew n populaty hs twelve boys left and wee afad of t and pefeed to st on one came to me, and befoe long the Bothe left end of a log whle th Se othe end cooked the the sland fsh, egadless of thee smoke and dt All n June: went downto' Colon on a new my dshes, foks espec ally, wee caefully exed what a fok- could be gasolne launch that had just begun to un up amned; they wondee ths coast The captan vey kndly offeed fo When was co okng they would come to take me down and bng me back n ten n and smell aound t: he pan, and f t was so ::;: days, and ths was too good an offe to be e- that they could dp a fnge nto the concocand n evey case they' 'fused The chef asked me to take hs eldest ton they would do so -boy, Chales,who was about seven yeas old, wee dsgusted wth t he whte woman's food; *; :: A { A 4:', ' :',,v A; ; ' '} ' ''S -, C' n YY- t * 1; - 1,, -f - ' c::l A ' ;d 'S : _" _:' + a,,

17 ,:1P 0 1E t,- 5 ': :*u':" ~-~ a ' ; *, ;, t '1 ;,: 6 ANNA COOPE SCY PLOT Two months afte the Roman Catholc teache had left, as the house was standng empty, the chef sad that they would pull t down went n to look t ove t was a lage buldng about twenty-fve feet by thty Thee wee thee ooms downstas and fve ooms above The lagest oom downstas had been used fo elgous sevces only; ts walls wee hung wth pctues of sants and the Vgn, and thee wee wooden statues The confessonal box was thee, whch have found vey useful as a lbay, and the baptsmal font About ths tme a Panamanan offcal came up to see my school, and was so well pleased wth t that he advsed me to leave the gass hut and go nto the lage house told hm that the pests had bult t and wanted no : touble wth them by occupyng the popety He sad that t would be all ght; that they would not etun, and that t would be St To$ : t V : bette fo me to go nto t at once, addng: "Ths house s no ft place fo a woman" : "told hm that was vey happy and felt that : ; God who led me hee was keepng watch ove ' :4 X 1 ' : : ' : :; : -1 `: " L' -C : * C ' : \ s 1 t '14[''j -,, - jl 1 - *as* ' ; *s AT RO DABLO 7, me contnually, and to have Hs appoval satsfed me; that was neve lonely o afad When the any season was on, whch lasts fom May to the fst week n Novembe, thee cetanly was much to be desed n the way of comfot n my gass house Often my floo was n such pools that had to wea my ubbes all day, but hoped fo bette thngs when the dy season came, and endued the dscomfot But one monng n August when my floo seemed nothng but one geat puddle, decded that pehaps t would be wse fo me to move nto the house The ndans had not ton t down, so told the' chef that wanted them to open t up, clean t and make t eady fo me They went to wok at once, and the next day, Satuday, was movng nto my upstas tenement Wasn't t fnel had doo that could shut and thus have a lttle pvacy; had a good boad floo to walk on upstas and a smooth cement one downstas Thee wee thee long desks that would seat sx at a pnch,: and the men made me thee moe; so wthsx benches ou oom was soon lookng lke a : '"''" - ; 1 :?:, ' :l : 1' ; t- :,' t : -, f '' ' ' t! t \:,':j ' ' lk: ld

18 : *:':c - :, - * * -, :-, 8 ANNA COOPE, SKY PLOT AT RO DABLO - 9,, : eal schooloom took down the pctues He was the son of the chef of :of the sants and othe paaphenala of my 4ona sland : ) fom whch had been pedecessos ejected, and put a up pctues-of flowes, ad had been sent to school on ths sland, bds and anmals that cut fom the magalvnggwth Chef Robnson But even befoe znes and pasted on whte tle pape, and we Catholc all Bothe left he had come to my felt poud of ou new quates school, and fo a yea he was wth me, kept one of the mages to use as an object pofeessng to ac-' ' cept Jesus as hs Savou He l lesson, leaned and when to the boys ected the xxth 'T 1 speak Spansh well, and when the Spansh Psalm touched each pat of the mage as offcal who told me to go nto they ected: "They have mouths, but thhe they bg house saw hm he took a geat fancy to hm and : '1 speak not; eyes have they, but they see not," took hm to Panama Cty, whee etc, and questoned them about t When 1he s puttng: ; Ls A L~ * we had fnshed m mougn scnool W lad the mage down and 1 stepped on t, askng: "Can t feel, can t help us, can t hut me, can t get up?" One of the boys, who was vey bght and could speak Spansh well, and had lved wth the pests, as the eand boy, sad: "Mss Coope, knelt : befoe that wooden man sometmes two hous at a tme, and kssed t, and always bowed my knee when passed t But see now that, '"' Y t cannot help us t wll neve woshp an mage agan" can only pay that Joe may be kept n the knowledge of God and that the wod may pove a savo of lfe unto lfe n hs case ;, ~' ; " - ; ",' ': Z:-, L;p ': ", ' '; ' ", ' * * ; 4 ' ; t ", " * 0" ' ' ;, 1 - ',, t '!:! ; :':-,, ' :"/l' ::~;::,

19 :T; h 44 ' :' ' ; CHAPTER X HNDRANCES AND PROGRESS ;:' : (NE of the geat hndances to the ecep- ~2t '1t ' "ton of Chst and the uplft of the n 14f "dans on the sland was, as t s eveywhee, ~l ;1 :~ lquo Thee wee ten um-shops fo a pop- 'ulaton of 800 They had bottles of Balboa - 'j Zll bee on the shelves, and they bult a specal cubby-hole of wood wth a thatched oof whch was set apat as a shop, and ths was :' owned by the chef, o, as he sad, by hs! bothe The tades bought up demjohns 4' of um, so they all sold ths, the "Chss- 4;] ':': tans'" lquo-the captans and salos all - : called themselves "Chss-tans" when talkng, to the ndans-and they had the own home :": made um; so lquo was plentful, and evey ~J week dung the fst yea that was thee "_ " ;'they had what s called a "chee-chee," whch,aeally s a dunken spee ove a gl's comng to matuty t wasthe woman's day The d:,v 11_` m - -;j 14 :1 HNDRANCES, AND PROGRESS t, 21 gl was bathed thee tmes a day fo fou days by the women, and dung that tme the fathe was n the woods shootng game of any knd and up the ve catchng fsh, and the mothe was cookng on a lage scale and makng the um, whch was put nto lage eathen jas When all was eady they fed a gun to notfy all to come, fo the feast was to begn The gl passed aound to the guests potons of meat, fsh, vegetables and othe thngs, and they n tun pesented he wth ngs, beads, and cloth Then they dank and sang They : *, ' ; -;f!, ' c' ' 1, p (,: :: :- have a specal song, and f the snge does not, fnsh t n two days the feast must go on, and of couse he does not fnsh untl he sees that,thee s no moe um Sometmes the feast has gone on fo fve days, and cannot descbe the howlng and yellng; t s hell let loosel All the men ae dunk, and all the women, especally those of the gl's famly, sceamng nght and day The men walk the steets wth bottles unde the ams, askng evey one they meet to dnk wth them' The "babblngs, the wounds wthout a cause,"' the bloodshed wee teblel One monng when ", *, L - " '' : - - : : *'*:,t "' : ) : :': - ' - +b j

20 ---,uc4-,-, -ul, -,-,-,,_ n,jlc --l--c*u*- '--upllul-w;u l-l P:L,,,' :'--t ~,,, - 1,,,,- -,1,,, : : - k #: -:,: " - ND 122 ANNA COOPE, SKY PLOT ' HNDRANCES AND PROGRESS x23 ::, went to the ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ doo of my gass hut :, thee wee, ;': ; 'geat spots of blood befoe the doo The not and would not stop; the "whte devl" ',~,, :'!~ '" '' boys sad: "Men fght-dunkl" The chef must leave; t was she who had put the chef t : came by and tp told to me ths not move; to come he had out; neve t would stopped them befoe she came -:: not be safe He was sobe, and sobe n moe As a esult of the chef's stand'the women,,:lt~ ways than one He was actng as polceman, fo all hs fou polcemen wee dunk Thee!,u;:~, ; ;, was a bg fght on, and he had ted them all,to : a post and was walkng aound my house to guad me j ; Afte that teble spee was ove-t lasted fom one Sunday monng tll the followng ' l$l,oql ' Sunday-the chef came to me and sad: "Ths d ls ~ too much " He felt ashamed to have me, the fst foegn woman that had eve lved 14 ;~ o; ` on the sland, see how beastly they wee, ' When had talked to hm of Jesus as a pe- sonal Savou, he would say, " am not a sn- ' ne; beleve n Jesus; am all ght," and,*-4, ~ ' yet he kept a' um-shop, and allowed the f;4,: - spees to go on ~: ':j' f `''~ But mattes had eached a clmax now When the people had sobeed up he called a : meetng and told them that ths thng must efused to come to school; not a gl came fo' seveal weeks But the boys all alled aound the chef and sad: "Mss Coope s good; she not dnk um and, fght; we : ashamed of ou mothes" told the chef ; that he ought to accept Jesus as hs Savou 1! c ~~~~~ t; f he wanted to help hs people; that Jesus tl would gude hm by hs Holy Spt- n ths' fght fo the ght; that hs dea was to stop these dunken bouts, but he kept hs own : um- shop and so how was he bette than hs peof / ple? When spoke of that he sad that the cubby-hole was hs bothe's "But you st thee and dnk and smoke wth the est," sad; "so they thnk f dnk- f ng s ght fo you t s ght fo them You * can't tell them to stop dnkng um whle you go on dnkng, sellng and encouagng you bothe to take the cocoanuts fo you t, ' Stop Many wee up n ams aganst hm lquo' : { They sad t was the custom and they could * Chef Robnson talked wth hs bothe f who t was so vexed that he"took hs'wfe and' ' daughte and left the sland fo a long vst A!1 to hs wfe's bothe on anothe sland * s

21 : V,,, ''"L -- =-F k A ~,, '** ' 4SF, ~!' c:' :w SOME OF MY BOYS alt dew n the net "Who of you wll take Jesus now fo you Savou, to save you fom sn and fll you heat wth Hs love and the Holy Spt?" CHAPTER X " wll beleve n Jesus nowl" Joe sad, and u f'l ~ '!~7! :, 'e :: stuck hs chest wth such eanestness that *,t;4a -e O NMay SOME OF MY BOYS pted we all looked at hm Hs face was eage, tst, x94, thee of my boys ac- hs body tembled Jesus n the Sunday-school "Let us all pay now," sad, fo evey boy L One was lttle Joe Has, the son of the chef n the class was deeply moved, and each one of Tupeelee; the second was Lonne Powes, payed A:7 about twelve veas old; and the thd Andew "Jesus, make me thy chld-good now-so Feguson,' who o s, thnk, about sxteen o peach," was one paye made bokenly 't t ; l seventeen,t1 hat Sunday as we ead n the Anothe payed: "Good Jesus, want good New Testame,nt class of boys of Jesus' con peach love peach good Amen" A ^Fl" mand: "Go ye : nto all the wold and peach thd:: " beleve you Jesus me fo ded : s-"-: : the osel to tle whole ceaton," explaned Make heat good Amen" One boy sad: 1~C~){ what t meant, tellng them as smply as "Jesus, make ndan good heat now, my l could the love stoy of Jesus; that when we good Amen" Joe sad, "Jesus, lt1-!: - beleve n Hn n wth all ou heats we want you ded fo me Make me good now; love :, to tell some one e else; that t was He who had you Amen" led them all n paye, and w sent me to tell t]he San Blas ndans about Hm at ts close each one sad: " feel good now": and Hs love f,o them "Now you can ead Two of these boys have developed wonde-: e : t fo youselv, es f you wll beleve, God fully Lonne -Powes was always vey u;' ;' ' 3; wll save you: and then send you to othes;" bght n hs lessons; he caved knowledge sad Lttle Joe's eyes wee full of teas and apdly passed evey boy n the school, 132, ' j- 'o ' :!,, -, 33 ; ' ' ' * 11 * ' 4k

22 - 1E always cyng fo moe wok, moe nfoma ton He was just as lovng and obedent as -,, he was bght, and became convnced, watchng hs pogess n sptual as well as ntellectual thngs, that God had a wok fo hm and wanted hm to have a wde tanng than, could gve hm My thought was to send hm to the Academy at Nyack, New Yok, / and 'afte much 'paye got the assuance, that God would have hm go had often wtten about hm to my -chuch people at home and now wote agan tellng them how 7 felt about hm dd not know who was 't, 1 to be the honoed one to pay hs expenses though school, but knew that God was talkng to some one, fo a week afte had - lad the matte befoe the Lod and was sue ; n my soul that Lonne was to go, eceved n my mal, whch had been seven weeks on the way, a lette fom a man, almost a : stange, who sad that he had had a talk wth : '`" 134 ANNA COOPE, SKY PLOT :, '-f h ' 'e h;,,e -, : t' ' ; :sjtl,,'' :[4:!: : 2 ' :!a51, s TlT)g S- '-:- -- t yeas befoe ': A X' ' '- TE1 '; me at Old Ochad Beach, Me, about fve had told my expeences : wth the ndans and he had gone to hea me speak "Now a few days f ago," he added, " :: was led to send ths fve dollas to you *' : '' ::L ( C ' c ;: - 'P '" " ;: '' ' ;': '' ''' t,;?,,:, c- ; ''' n othe pats of the v a t,!: 1 'v : g 1 t Le ): -: t : 5 ;t f? 'L $: ;t 1

23 ,& t SOME OF MY BOYS '35 tust t wll be helpful" So saw that God bad,bcgun to talk money mattes to Hs own chlden only sent my ode to the Bank of Heaven, and my Fathe cashed t though vaous bankes Ths fve dollas was the eanest of Lonne's gong though school; moe would come When eceved the next mal all that was needed fo hs passage and outft came, wth a lette fom Emmanuel Chuch sayng that they would suppot Lonne n school The next step was to gan the consent of the paents and elatves, fo Lonne was vey eage to go Hs mothe and gandmothe wept fo two days befoe he left home, sayng that they would not see hm any moe, and t seemed as though Lonne's way would be blocked He sad: " do want to go, and keep payng that God wll let me" Fnally the fathe and olde bothe took the ens of govenment nto the own hands and pepaed Lonne's clothes-fo t s the men who ae the talos n the San Blas County -packed the box, o athe thew the thngs n, fo they do not know how to fold o pess the clothes, and fnally all was eady and 136 ANNA COOPE, SKY PLOT he was to go was gong to attend the Latn-Amecan Confeence at Panama Cty fom Febuay o to 20, 1916, and planned to take Lonne Powes and Andew Feguson wth me and to send Lonne on to Nyack fom thee Hs mothe and gandmothe wept befoe he left, but fnally ended by submttng to hs fathe's wsh Whle we wee n Panama both of the boy wee baptzed by the elde n the Chstan Msson, and the testmony n that Msson Hall aoused many of the young people, who had head the gospel all the lves and had not accepted Chst, to do so then aanged fo Lonne to sal on the steame Colon leavng the dock at Chstobal on Thusday, Febuay 2 4 th, 916, and he was to ave n New Yok on Mach, exactly thee yeas snce had stated my school He was one of the fst futs of my wok gong to the Unted States to be taned fo a mssonay to hs own San Bas ndans These ae some of my boys, and you see they ae just as human as the boys n Ameca Some people have an dea that f they could only go to a fa-away heathen land whee the people ae so dffeent fom those at home, they could do geat thngs wth them But let me say fo the beneft of those people that the heathen have as much knowledge of evl as ou educated teaches at home, fo the fallen natue s thes to contend wth just as much and t comes to the top n a emakable manne The colo of the skn does not hnde ts manfestatons, and educaton does not; eadcate t; only the blood of Jesus Chst

24 h ANNA COOPE, SKY PLOT : 7f?* :, t can do that We ejoce that we ae called to lft up Jesus as the only Savou fom the powe of the Devl, who s as busy out hee as elsewhee,, and we ae not gnoant of hs devces : ': \ t F CHAPTER X "THE CHEF MAN OF THE SLAND" OR a long tme afte my comng to the ' sland woked fo the conveson of Chef Robnson wthout hs suendeng to Chst He essted l the Spt, sayng, when bought almost to the pont of suende, t ' : "Some othe tme," but payed on and beleved fo hm Often when ntepeted the F gospel nvtatons to beleve and accept Jesus now, he would peach to hmself, sayng: "Yes, t stue, and t s aganst me but wll beleve "; soon" Then he would A come to me fo a talk, 4 and just when he seemed almost pesuaded some one would come and call hm, and he would go away stll undecded Often he:;: Lo', *?: would avod me by gong to hs plantaton on P : Satuday and etunng on Monday, so that fo seveal Sundays would not see hm '?'S ' When we talked he would ty to justfy hm-- 4! : Y K self by agung fk that all the old ndans be to HeZ0-1' 1-49, - 11_' ; : :' "c "` 4, ', - ; L: * ' b 4 '; 't '',* a?9

25 ,-4,,44 _;Nl ---- l ~1 1 ~~~~ ;~~~ 43 4T ~ :t ' f~ :2 4t ;, ~dc~b t 2M: ' 4,- = - 50o ANNA COOPE, SKY PLOT leved that f they dd not mude a man th would go to heaven; that he was not bad; h used to be when he was a salo, but he had tuned ove a new leafl How lke so man wth fa geate lght than he who ty eason themselves nto the belef that they ae not snnes needng to be bon agan Afte he had stayed away fom the Sunday nght sevces fo thee weeks, sayng that he had to wok o he was sck, o some othe excuse, sad to myself: "Yes, you ae tyng tt get away fom God, but He wll get you yetl" Then he began to tell me of the touble bew )ng n the mdst of the people t seems that they wanted a bg "chee-chee", Thee wee fou gls of maageable age and they had planned a bgge affa than eve Thev thought that they had obeyed the chef petty well fo months now, and he ought to c: them have anothe spee He was n a quanday, and wth hs own heat's convctons to battle aganst, he was havng a had tme He stayed n my sttng-oom fo thee hous, and we talked of God and hs powe L to save, to help and to gude He ageed that 1! - CHEF MAN OF THE SLA] ND -l5 :' ~, ' '' - *, L' ' - _c ':: all told hm was ght, but pleaded: "Don't ty my best to get my people to do ght?" Then tuned hs own agument aganst hm "Yes," sad, "you ae tyng, and because they efuse to see as you do you feel bad about t t s fo the own good, and yet they postvely efuse to' be helped How about you and God? You admt that am ght, that am gvng you the best know of God's tuth; and yet you efuse to obey God, who s ove you, and expect you people to obey youl f you wll suende you wll to God he wll teach you how to lead othes You need God at ths patcula tme, but you must suende fst then you people wll?" But he was not wllng Afte much pesuason, afte he acknowledged that t was the ght thng to do, he jumped up as though he had been shot and sad, "Not to-nght; some othe tme," and left wthout sayng goodnght My heat was geved, but had - fath n God; was not dscouaged; knew that God was talkng to hm Ths was on a Thusday nght The chef went away agan on Satuday, etunng on ~~~zl~~~~~, 'J' -"u~p 11 3,' ft~ ;

26 " 't 4 tl l Lo % ' 'm;j 4 A:!!, 4t ~ TAkT A nd Q V WV7 52 ANNA uunl, A LUT --, S : ', :-4 Monday, and agan the week afte, but had' to etun Satuday nght as quckly as he could He eached home at mdnght and was n agony the est of the nght wth bodly pan Ealy Sunday monng he sent fome hs boy sayng, "Oh, comequckl My fathes vey sck, vomtng blood" went, to fnd hm ollng n hs hammock n geat pan As went n he sad: "Oh, Mss Coope, do pay fo mel Do pay nowl" "Oh, not now," epled "Some othe tme wll do Thee s no huy; go to sleep" "But can't sleep; God s talkng to me Pay fo mel" "No, ": you pay fo youself now f God s talkng to you, you must talk to Hm 've :done all can; can't help you now can't : : eleve you; only Jesus the Savou can do v::: ;, that" - " know tl should have gven Hm my heat long ago He has been talkng to me, but ddn't want to obey wll obey now" '' fst,/c ''' : ' ' ' '' ' "Well, then, confess you sns you a snne?"' :"Yes" ; ": :,, ' ' : :, : ; '! 1 ' CHt' MAN OF THE SLAND 53 "Then tell God and ask Hm to fogve you now" Between goans he payed, and when he had confessed and asked God to padon hm, thanked God fo convctng hm and asked Hm to heal the sck man, that he mght glofy God and lead hs people to know Hm fo themselves then began to nque about hs body; that was seconday; we had to settle the sptual sckness fst had them get me some eggs and gave hm the whtes of eggs only that day and the next The pan n hs stomach ceased and he slept stayed up wth hm all nght Hs lttle boy of thee was sck also, and they wee gong to chant some ndan nonsense ove hm, at the same tme wavng a wooden mage the length of a man's hand, to dve away the bad spt that was makng the chld sck told hm to tell them to pay to God, and f the chld was to get bette God would heal hm He' sent the message to them, and they dd not go though the ncantatons; the boy eco- eed As 4 * *, '' ; t Meanwhle pepaatons fo the geat feastwee gong on The chef called a meet ' ; t L 1' t b '' )? t ' J *, '- '" 1 :, sv'- ''$ t '; X H ' ' s ' 15;; ) ) : -- -, al w