G. Harry Agnew, a Pioneer Missionary (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVIII. TIDINGS OF MR. HAVILAND's DEATH--OFF FOR INHAM BANE RETURN TO NATAL SECOND MARRIAGE--SETTLED AT JOHANNESBURG. He leadeth me 0 blessed thought O words with heavenly comfort fraught Whate'er I do, where'er I be, Still 'tis God's hand that leadeth me. Sometimes 'mid scenes of deepest gloom, Sometimes where Eden's bowers bloom, By waters still, o'er troubled sea, Still 'tis His hand that leadeth me.--Prof. S. B. Gilmore. About two months after his arrival in Johannesburg, and before getting properly settled down to work, Mr. Agnew received a letter from Mrs. Emma Hillmon Haviland, mailed at Delagoa Bay, telling of the death of her husband, the Rev. John J. Haviland, missionary at Inhambane, sent out in March, 1892, by the same board under which Mr. Agnew was sent out and had been working for some years. This good man and devoted missionary died of hematuria fever March 18, 1897, after an illness of but a few days. Mr. Agnew held him in high esteem for his sterling qualities, mourned deeply because of his death and left on record a touching tribute to his memory. Immediately on receipt of Mrs. Haviland's letter Mr. Agnew made arrangements to go to Inhambane m by way of Durban, Natal. Upon arriving at Inhambane he devoted himself for some time to getting matters at the mission in as good shape to leave as possible, and then, about May 1st, took his departure, returning, as he went, by way of Natal. At Durban on the third day of May, 1897, he was united in marriage to Miss Lillie A. Smith, a very devoted young woman who had been laboring as a missionary in Natal for over three years. This union proved to be a very happy one, and resulted in greatly strengthening him for the few years of toil on the foreign field which were to terminate his mor...