"Congo Picture Book"
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THIS MUST BE THE JAR THE DOCTOR WANTS
The African assistants and patients alike regard the missionary doctor's medicine with considerable awe and have the utmost confidence in his pills, capsules and hypodermic needles. Surgery is the ultimate favor that can be bestowed upon them!

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THE BEAUTY OF CHRISTIAN MOTHERHOOD SPEAKS A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE

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MY FOREFATHERS BEFORE ME SCORNED WORK LIKE THIS!
The tilling of the soil has traditionally been considered the work of women among many of the Congo tribes. This task added to the dozens of others combined to make the work of the woman a grinding, crushing routine. One of the objectives of missionaries everywhere is to instill in the thinking of Congo men the dignity and worth of physical labor without which their country will never rise above its backward state.

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A LIGHTHOUSE ON A HILL CANNOT BE HID
Across Congo on river banks, in the forest clearings, at cross roads and on hill tops there now rise solid symbols of a faith and a way of life that is new to this land. This is the Charlesville church, the first that was built in the C. I. M.

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