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The Power Of A Kiss

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
June
Year
1885
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mrs. Jennie F. Wllllnr, in a recent mistión iryaddress before the New York conference, relatedthe thrillingly interesting story of a missionary and nis wife In one of the South Sea islands, where Mr. (afterwards Dr.) Cocker, of the Michigan Universlty, narrowly escaped being enten by cannibals. Dr. Cocker and his mate lived to teil the story of their adventure in Enjrland. Moved by pltyinit love, and ander the Insplratlon of theHoly Spint, h preucher and his wife volunteered to go out as missionaries to that very island. Emharking on a merchant vessel, they pin. ¦ceded In inducing the captain to put thini Hhorewhen none of tiieinhabitants were viihle. Seating theinselves on a box that contaiued all their earthly possessions, they wisttully watched the ship spread her white wMiT8aud disappear lelow ttie horizon. When the savajres, accompanied by their chief and hisdauirhter came on the scène, they feit the limbs of the miasionary, and evidently tfaoufht that in hini was material for a toothsoine banquet. The dauhter ran lier n'ngers thmugli the loiir, silky hair of the lady, who, impelUíd by godly cmotion, drewthe t;irl to her and iniprinted a heart Enalish Kiss npon her lips. That natural act won the beftftol tlie daughter Fur three days the debate on eating those unexpected guests went on, and at last was decitlcd in the negntive by the pagfionate, pleadIdk eloqannce f the chief's favorita child. The niissinnaries lived hng enough toM6 all the people on the island eonvtrted to Christ, and letlding out iniísionarics of their own blond to 01 her conimunitieg lying in lieatlu'ii darkness. A Marblehead woman claims to have just returned Irom an eighty days visit to licaveii and heli. They didn't seem to want her la either place.

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Ann Arbor Courier
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