1908 Samuel Morris Child Africa Liberia Missionary Booklet

Description: Samuel Morris : A Spirit Filled Life // Copyright D.E. Reed 1908 // Golden Rule Publishing Company Albion MI. Born Prince Kaboo, the son of a minor African King, the boy was kidnapped, beaten and held hostage for an unattainable ransom by a rival Liberian tribe. At the age of 11 Kaboo escaped to a nearby coffee plantation where he went to work. It is in one of these plantation cabins that Kaboo is said to have experienced a blinding light and Christian conversion. Kaboo attended church services, taught himself to read English and preached to his fellow workers. Local American missionaries took notice and advised him to find his way to the United States. Given the Christian name upon his departure, the enterprising young man now known as Samuel Morris traded his labor on a ship bound for New York City. There he met Stephen Merritt who writes this biography. Merritt provides the introduction to Taylor University in Fort Wayne Indiana and asks the readers of Western Christian Advocate to help pay Morris’s tuition. Morris is a dedicated student who excels both at his course work and as a preacher, before he contracts a fatal case of pneumonia (possibly because his body had never experienced these temperatures in Africa) at the age of 20 years old. Hundreds are said to have attended Morris’s funeral and three of his pallbearers were inspired to become missionaries to Africa themselves, to fulfill the boy’s dream. Offered as a mail order for 10c // chap book measures just under 5 x 7” and is complete in 32 unnumbered pages. It has seen use w/ soiling, dog ears, missing back paper cover, shows a rusty impression on front blank from a paper clip and is fully detached from it’s front cover which once fed a hungry mouse. This is however the ONLY period copy that I can see online, representing an unusual vantage point from Liberia to America. The text references Jane Street Church Methodists, A.M.E. on Church Berry Street, Rev. C.F. Yoder, Henry O.Neil, Rev. C.B. Stemen, Rev. C.E. Smirl and Rev. T.C. Reade.

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