I can't say anything
else. Oh, if I only get another day
to work. I hope it will be fuller of earnestness
and blessing than the past.
This vacation was a real blessing to Mary. The fevers left her. With no
committee meetings, no court cases or other problems to worry about, she
grew stronger very quickly. It was not many months before she was back at
Duke Town. The doctor gave her an examination.
"You're as sound as an elephant's ivory tusk," said the doctor. "You are
good for many years, if you will only take care."
Mary did not like that. She had never been willing to sit and twiddle her
thumbs. Now her mind was full of new plans for more work. She wanted to get
busy with her work for the Lord.
For the next two years Mary worked hard at Use and Ikpe. She traveled
between these two places, sometimes in a canoe, sometimes in the government
boat, but mostly in her two-wheeled cart. There was still much to do. She
was still fighting the juju worship, the sinful practice of eating people
and the murdering of twins.
Eight years had gone by since Mary had left Akpap. A new church was being
finished and the missionaries who now worked there invited Mary to attend
the dedication service. Mary wanted to see the dear friends she had loved
for years. She decided to go and take her adopted children with her.
From all over Okoyong the people had come to see their Ma, their White
Queen.
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