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Updated: May 6, 2025
I am teaching them about Jesus. I am telling them that He saved them from their sins." Mother Slessor hugged her little teacher and told her about the move they planned to make. Then the other children were called and told, too. There was much excitement, especially when the furniture was sold and the Slessors with their remaining possessions took the train to Dundee.
So Miss Slessor stood waiting in the broiling sun, in the hot season's height, while a path was being cut to enable her just to get through to her own grounds.
Suddenly the "toot" of the Government motor-car was heard, and in a moment jury, witnesses, prisoners, and policemen rushed out of the building to catch a glimpse of the "new steamer" that ran on the road. Then back they drifted, and the proceedings went on. Mr. Adamson appreciated the service which Miss Slessor was accomplishing by her work in the Court.
Adamson went on ahead, and at a spot where a few rough steps were cut in the steep bank he saw a boy standing, He called out, "Ma Slessor?" The boy signed to Mm to come it was a short cut to the house. Clambering up the bank and making his way through the bush, Mr. Adamson came upon a little native hut. Miss Slessor advanced to meet him. "Come awa in, laddie, oot o' the heat," was her greeting.
Good Elder McDougal has given us a bit of meat and some bread, so we can eat this day." Father Slessor groaned, but sat up to the table and ate dinner with his family. It wasn't much of a dinner. It would have been even less were it not for the kindness and charity of friends, because Father Slessor had spent all their money for drink. After dinner the children did the dishes and ran out to play.
Livingstone stirred the land: it was followed by a wave of missionary enthusiasm; and the call for workers for the dark continent thrilled many a heart. It thrilled Mary Slessor into action. She reviewed the situation. Her sisters were now in good situations, and she saw her way to continue her share in the support of the home.
"Shee, there ya' are, I brought money home. There'sh a thrippence for ye." "Oh, Robert!" said Mother Slessor in dismay as the tears filled her eyes. "Oh, Robert!" Then because she was used to these things, Mother Slessor heaved a sigh and said quietly, "Come and eat supper, Robert." The father staggered over to the table where Mrs.
Needless to say, on arriving Miss Slessor took charge of affairs, relieving the unfortunate, weak, staggering woman from her load and carrying it herself, for no one else would touch it, or anything belonging to those awful twin things, and they started back together to Miss Slessor's house in the forest-clearing, saved by that tact which, coupled with her courage, has given Miss Slessor an influence and a power among the negroes unmatched in its way by that of any other white.
You had better go back. I will not protect you." Mary Slessor was on her mettle. "When you think of the woman's power," she said to the chief, "you forget the power of the woman's God. I shall go on." And to the amazement of the savages in the villages she went on into the darkness. Surely she must be mad. She defied their chief who had the power to kill her.
They would not touch it and only approached it after some days, and then only when it was held by Miss Slessor or me.
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