4

1898. Fourth visit home, with Janie, Alice, Maggie, and Mary. 50

1900. Union of United Presbyterian and Free Churches as
United Free Church. 52

1902. Pioneering in Enyong Creek. 54

1903. Started a Mission at Itu. Reached Arochuku. 55

1904. Settled at Itu. 56

1905. Settled at Ikotobong. 57
Appointed Vice-President of Native Court.

1907. Fifth visit home with Dan. 59
Settled at Use.

1908. Began a home for women and girls. 60

1909. Gave up Court work. 61

1910. Began work at Ikpe. 62

1912. Holiday at Grand Canary. 64

1913. Visit to Okoyong. 65
Received Royal Medal.
Began work at Odoro Ikpe.

1914. Last illness, August. 65

1915. Died at Use, January 13. 66
Mary Slessor Memorial Home decided on by Women's
Foreign Mission Committee.

1916. Issue of Appeal for L5000 for upkeep of Memorial
Home and Missionary.

THE WHITE QUEEN OF OKOYONG

[Illustration: WISHART CHURCH, DUNDEE.]

CHAPTER I

Tells how a little girl lived in a lowly home, and played, and
dreamed dreams, and how a dark shadow came into her life and
made her unhappy; how when she grew older she went into a
factory and learned to weave, and how in her spare minutes she
taught herself many things, and worked amongst wild boys; and
how she was sent to Africa.

One cold day in December, in the city of Aberdeen, a baby girl was
carried by her mother into a church to be enrolled in the Kingdom of
Jesus and given a name. As the minister went through the tender and
beautiful ceremony the people in the pews looked at the tiny form in her
robes of white, and thought of the long years that lay before her and
wondered what she would become, because every girl and boy is like a
shut casket full of mystery and promise and hope. No one knows what
gifts may lie hidden within them, and what great and surprising things
they may do when they grow up and go out into the world.

The baby was christened "Mary Slessor,"