Excerpt from My Trip to Africa

To help on this great day, in a small measure, I started for the west coast of Africa in 1885, to select a mission field for operating self-supporting missions, after which I returned to America, and raised the amount of money needed to pay the expenses of sending a small band of missionaries to this newly selected field. This I did by lecturing on my travels in Africa, sometimes charging an admittance fee at the door, and at other times giving a free lecture and taking a public collection. God gave me great success in raising this money. I will insert a few notices, given of these missionary meetings, to give the reader an idea of them. The first that we insert was written by Miss Kate H. Booth, of our Buffalo (N. Y.) meeting, for a newspaper in St. Louis, Mo.:

"We can not always see the whys and wherefores of God's providential leadings, but with the poet we can exclaim,

'Above the rest this note shall swell,
My Jesus doeth all things well.'

"We read the willing and obedient shall eat the good of the laud, so I was permitted to attend a missionary meeting in Black Rock church, Buffalo, N. Y., September 24, conducted by Brother Harris. It was good to be there. The presence of the Lord was manifest, and for three hours the congregation was held spellbound.

"Some of our people have entertained false ideas in regard to Brother Harris and his work.

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