LAYING THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH. 163 would hinder them.” On which I mentioned the case of the lads at Duke Town who had been fined by the chiefs for entering into an agreement to discontinue the rites of idolatry, and commanded to annul it. At a subsequent meeting in reference to the fall of… … Church, Mission-house, and School-house. the new man might also have fallen before temptation,” I remarked. Eyo was ready with his question, “ Why, then, does not God kill the devil ? ” a question frequently proposed by him and others. Wiser men than King Eyo have puzzled themselves over the origin…
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