If you're wondering about permissions and what you can do with this item, a good starting point is the "rights information" on this page. Slessor went completely native. doing wrong might be forced to eat poison beans; or boiling oil might be They lived in a one-room house in a slum. What was it like to work in a jute mill in Dundee or to work amongst warrior tribes in Africa? her friends to meet her singly, rather than in groups. However, he died young, and Mary resolved to carry out his calling herself. "Its OK boys. "What is courage, but faith conquering fear?" Sometimes she would forget the time until the bell for work went off. Such Good News! them all. By her deep love, she showed the people God’s love, and slowly many of these practices stopped. Christianity.com is a member of the Salem Web Network of sites including: Copyright © 2023, Christianity.com. They had different institutions including schools, hospitals and orphanages. Later, in Scotland, when she was on her furlough, Mary’s mother took a monthly magazine from the United Presbyterian Church called Missionary Record. him. National Records of Scotland, OPR 168/14, page 500. A drizzling rain Mary Slessor, a pert, blue-eyed, red-haired girl in Scotland, had always felt called of God to go to the black people in Calabar, Africa, to bring them the gospel of Jesus Christ. she pleaded with the Mission Council to permit her to open a new mission Once Slessor learned about the love of Jesus, she never used the same fear tactics to bring anyone into the kingdom. After three years her Mary came up with a solution. held out, refusing steadfastly to receive the Christian missionaries. Read about our approach to external linking. It traces the remarkable story of local heroine Mary Mitchell Slessor (1848-1915) through a series of captioned stained glass panels. her forehead, she stood with steady eyes. tribe of Bantu origin, lighter in color than most of the blacks in Nigeria Death 26 May 2015 (aged 78-79) "She saw it wasn't some dominant force that would change things but getting down beside people and learning their language, not being in a distant missionary house but living with them,". In 1914, Mary Slessor, a world-famous missionary to Nigeria, fell so As she lay semi-conscious she whispered "O God, release me." She died on this day, January 13, 1915 , mourned by thousands of Nigerians. These toughs surrounded her while their leader whirled a lead At Arochuku, thousands their home country. To Slessor, this was a symbol of the darkness in the town. In spite of this she was a mischievous, impulsive, strong-willed child She adopted every child she found abandoned, and sent out twins' missioners to find, protect and care for them at the Mission House. This new trading created inter-tribal peace for the first time. "Mary Slessor realised it would take a generation of cultural change to bring about a difference," says Mr Chalmers. The birth of twins was considered a In 1913, she was awarded the Order of St John. The baby was christened "Mary Slessor," and then she was wrapped up carefully again and taken home. The household schedule continues on the following page and records details for the three other children - Susan, John and Jane. She got into all sorts of trouble and looked back then with both amusement and shame. She comes from a poor family. Because of Christ, Miss Slessor found strength to stand up to warriors and rescue those sentenced to death and save babies thought to be demons - even when she herself had no strength to give. In 1874, the Christian world was profoundly moved by the news of Livingstone's Sometimes Mary would get kicked out on the street and forced to stay there for a few nights. for thirty-nine years. So, they put a bird bath here with her name and the date of her death on it. But in 1880, Mary Slessor returned to Calabar with new ardor, and now In addition, it created good relations with outsiders. . town. The Committee of Scottish Bankers "Clydesdale Bank - £10 Famous Scots Series", This page was last edited on 6 January 2023, at 06:35. The horrors of heathenism did not terrify her, since from earliest childhood In 1859, the Slessor family moved to Dundee. A hospital was created in her honor in Itu, called Mary Slessor hospital to provide for the medical needs of the community. Her compound was full of litigants, witnesses, and onlookers, For three years she zealously Mary would go around and knock on tenement doors. Mary’s favorite person to read about was David Livingstone. Her body was taken to Calabar, where she was buried With her red hair and blue eyes, she was instantly recognisable to the local people, who came to trust and even revere her for the tireless fight she put up on their behalf. Her father constantly drank alcohol and did not provide for his wife and seven children. Mary taught herself to read since she was working full time and had no way to get an education. of the city, and this tended to make her a rough and ready antagonist lives are worth saving. Her native girl helpers put her to bed, where When she The native people believed that one of the twins was the offspring of the devil who had secretly mated with the mother and since the innocent child was . her to administer justice in and around Itu. which made her a great missionary in Africa, Mary inherited from her Then took her along as she had to return Scotland again due to illness. Slessor couldn’t help but wonder how she could reach out to the Okoyong people? people are God Almighty. View our statement on digital primary resources. On one occasion, there was a violent outbreak. Her father was a drunkard, who made life miserable for his entire family, but her mother was a beautiful Christian woman who reared her children in the fear of God. She wanted to go farther into Africa—where no missionaries had gone before and lived to tell about it. ‘God Has Not Deserted Us’: A Voice of Hope In Beirut’s Carnage. with her or molest those whom she sheltered in the compound. Learn more about the collections in Calisphere. and I'm sure God will be with you.". She died on this day, January 13, 1915, While in Scotland, She urged the people to treat women and children better and to put an end to all the killing. For thirty-nine years she had served Africa, bringing to unhampered by legal technicalities.". The grave of Mary Slessor, marked by an imposing cross of Scottish granite, is in the heart of the country she served so well. 2 December 1848 Aberdeen, Scotland U.K. Died. Mary taught Sunday school at her Presbyterian Church. His life inspired her to pursue being a missionary in Africa. Every item on Calisphere has been contributed to the site by a California institution. On multiple occasions, Slessor intervened before the twins could be murdered. frantic from drunkenness, would cause nights of terror. As the Gospel continued to spread among the Okoyong, civilization came to them much faster than it did among the coast. From the slums of Dundee in Scotland she travelled to the wild jungles of Africa. The government even gave her the role of magistrate, the first woman to ever hold such a position, so she could continue to help the people solve their problems without killing one another. [11], Her body was transported down the Cross River to Duke Town for the colonial equivalent of a state funeral. Mary had blue eyes and red hair, which she wore very short. Get Citation Have a question about this item? More horrific than anything was the act of twin killing. The fevers eventually weakened Slessor to the point she could no longer walk long distances in the rainforest, but had to be pushed along in a hand-cart. However, in spite of her many administrative duties, Mary Slessor never Has Calisphere helped you advance your research, complete a project, or find something meaningful? boldness Mary took the burial rites into her own hands, and by her persistent Mary started attending half a day of school provided by the Mill and the other half working in the Mill when she was eleven. James Sluser 1866 James Sluser in 1871 Canada Census James Sluser was born circa 1866, at birth place, to William Sluser and Isabella Sluser. whose lives were as bleak as her own. her own missionary methods. The woman dubbed “Eka Kpukpru Owo” which meant “everybody’s Mother,” was buried in the area she had served, following a funeral procession that one source called “the grandest procession that West Africa had ever seen.”, Indeed, this beloved local figure and her devoted dedication to her God and to the Nigerian people, inspired many generations to come! She had a great love for nature, a great love for animals, for birds. weight. Carly Cooper, a curator at the McManus, Dundee's art gallery and museum, looks after a collection of Slessor's possessions and papers, which lay bare the change the missionary underwent in Calabar. A large part of her meager salary was sent me." but after the death of her father, Mary worked for the family, and even thrown alive into their husband's grave. Defend Prayer and Religious Liberty: Your Signature Makes an Impact! But a last heavy blow was to strike this ardent woman missionary. In 1950, the anthropologist Charles Partridge, a friend of Slessor when both were in Nigeria, donated letters from her, along with a recording of her voice, now The Slessor Collection at Dundee Central Library;[17] he said of her: "She was a very remarkable woman. Mary Slessor: Forward into Calabar. was full of corpses, not a single soul having been left to take care of a dull gray day Mary Slessor set out for Okoyong. new missionary projects. 1. Her father was a drunkard, who made life miserable for These people were in bondage to their drugs, slavery and violence. Yet, after all, it was her personality which subdued the natives to her When she returned to Nigeria, Mary resumed her work in more remote areas of the country, and introduced the Gospel to a new audience. 1894, after a service of three years as an official of the Government, where wives were strangled or buried alive to go with their dead chief into the spirit . With great will. One tribe she began to help about 1888 was the Okoyong people who were plagued by not only violence, but drugs and slavery. Mr. Robert had his own personal problems, mostly with alcohol, which deeply affected his whole family . Because of Christ, Miss Slessor was brave and bold. Even though they were sleeping, they would follow her. and industrial training school like Lovedale in South Africa, but she to Africa." On one occasion she was nowhere close to the scene of the violence. She was given one ovation after another, At 27 years of age, Mary started to learn Efik, the local language. She continued to rescue abandoned children and at one point she had nearly a dozen in her home. Living in the homes and villages of the people she found there. Mary Slessor was born While the mission was fairly successful, Old Calabar remained what it Thirty-nine years of her life she gave The following is the most up-to-date information related to Season 1 Episode 4: AFRICA THEN & NOW - TRANSFORMING LIVES. As it happened, Robert did become a missionary to New Zealand not to Africa. The entry in the statutory register of deaths for the district of St Andrew in the burgh of Dundee gives Robert Slessor’s occupation as shoemaker (journeyman), the place of death as 6 Eliza Street, his age as 53 and the cause of death as morbis cordis (heart disease). When she Many years afterwards the December 2, 1848, in the city of Aberdeen, the second of a family of In addition, each house had their own gods hanging off the roof. Anne Adams is a retired church staffer. Mary Slessor's compassionate approach is credited with changing how missionaries did their work, Her red hair and blue eyes made Slessor instantly recognisable among the tribes of Calabar and Okoyong, Slessor took in hundreds of sets of twins who were left to die due to local superstition, Slessor often set herself up in remote areas other missionaries were afraid to visit. She was given a state funeral and is buried at the Eyamba Street Cemetery in Duke Town. Birth and baptism entry for Mary Slessor (33 KB jpeg) She snatched whatever schooling she could get. They did not put her in a coffin, but they did choose to mark the grave with a simple bird bath. In the mission The ringleader dropped the 1851 Census record for Mary Slessor (35 KB jpeg) Responding to his call, Mary applied to become a missionary in Calabar, Nigeria. fell upon the hot country, as a few Christian friends accompanied her The people were illiterate, so Slessor called for pastors to instruct the new believers. Mary Slessor could not have chosen a field where missionary work was He swung it around as if he was going to hit her with it. One day while Slessor was getting into mischief with her friends, an old widow by beckoned them into her house. National Records of Scotland, 1870/282-4/760. back in the tropical forest. She decided like David Livingstone to make time to read. Under the careful medical care she rallied and Although exhausted, for she was Mary Slessor's Grave, Calabar, 1915 — Calisphere University of Southern California Digital Library International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960 Mary Slessor's Grave, Calabar, 1915 Image / Mary Slessor's Grave, Calabar, 1915 View source image on contributor's website. To begin with, Mary Slessor was every inch the Victorian missionary, seeking converts to Christianity amid the African jungle. by Hope Waddell, who spent some time in Scotland in the interest of African Death entry with Mary Slessor as informant (44 KB jpeg) when she was in Africa she supported her mother from her meager salary. "[18], Mary is remembered in the Church of England with a commemoration on 11 January. She was buried on a hillside by the mission station where she had first served. Born in December, 1848 in Aberdeen, Scotland. often she would turn her back upon them when they would not obey, but and of finer physique, but thoroughly degraded. Often times, she would go onto the street and rally youth to attend the Sunday school classes. University of Southern California Digital Library. to Sunday school where Mary became a teacher when she was yet almost All rights reserved. Their mother was . She wrote at the time, “I had often a lump in my throat…and my courage repeatedly threatened to take wings and fly away.”. The second of seven children, only four of whom survived childhood, her father was Mr. Robert Slessor. But the chief reason why she preferred living in Old Town, was because Slessor herself would have shunned such goings-on. Mary refused to wear the British clothes and eat the expensive imported food the other missionaries wore and ate. This meaningless life led to both drinking and violence. idols. Feverish, weak, and going in and out of consciousness, she prayed, "0 Abasi,sana mi yak" (0 God, let me go). When she heard that Belgium had the land of Ham so many great Christian workers. When chiefs or other . Her field was to be in the city of Calabar, where the United Presbyterian once for the country of Okoyong, which lies in the angle between the I first heard of Mary Slessor in November 2013, when Dr Catherine Derom forwarded a text by Mr Ette Ibibio describing Slessor's extraordinary contributions to the health and well-being of twins and their mothers in Calabar, Nigeria. country, four miles from the village of Ekenge, which was concealed far of pilgrims worshiped a most terrible idol, called the long Ju-Ju. To these hideous customs "But as time went on she learned their language, their cultural traditions and there was definitely a change - it wasn't all about converts, she actually had very few people who converted to Christianity, it was about improving people's lives.". Mary's charity passion started at a young age. Mary Mitchell Slessor (2 December 1848 – 13 January 1915) was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary to Nigeria. sister, Ma Eme, at once took a liking to the bold Scottish lass, and an eleven year old boy, Mary grabbed a scoop of the scalding liquid and Christian. The Slessors lived in the slums of Dundee. In the 1880s she even adopted a baby girl, whose twin brother had died, called her Janie. She helped heal the sick and stopped the practice of determining guilt by making the suspects drink poison. Mary Slessor Blessed, Heart, Son 69 Copy quote Oh Lord, I thank Thee that I can bring these people Thy Word. J. H. Morrison Her mother was a Christian. She was given a state funeral in Nigeria and in 1953 her grave was visited by Queen . This shocked Mary who after hearing the news, fell ill. She bounced back to her work after recovering in a hospital. station farther in the interior of the country. "She didn't just take with her these Western values - she wore the same clothes as the locals wore, lived beside the people, learned their language and spoke to them in their tongue," said Mr Chalmers. In Nigeria, Slessor is remembered and venerated even to this day. : "Mary Slessor, Ma Eme, Chief Edim & Ekenge People", Calabar, late 19th ... : "Mary Slessor Presiding at Okoyong Court, Calabar", late 19th century, : Mary Slessor at Ikotobong Court, Calabar, late 19th century, : Mary Slessor Memorial Window, Dundee, 1923, : "Overgrown Site of Mary Slessors House at Ekenge", Calabar, early 20th century, : "Opening a Box from Scotland", Calabar, late 19th century, : "Stretch of Enyong Creek, Calabar", late 19th century, : "Site of Slave Market, Itu, Calabar", late 19th century, : "House at Odoro Ikpe, Calabar", early 20th century, : "Itu Original Church, Calabar", late 19th century, : "Village Council House", Calabar, late 19th century. Council long hesitated before granting her permission. 5, 1876, when Mary was twenty-eight years old, she took the vow to consecrate she found almost eaten up by the flies and insects. men from their sleep. On the other hand, her father was a shoemaker and drunkard. "God and world again after all this blarney." She left Calabar for Dundee in 1879. She is most famous for having stopped the common practice of infanticide of twins in Okoyong, an area of Cross River State, Nigeria.[1][2]. great men died their wives were buried alive with them, while their slaves When a man poured boiling oil on the hands of Jesus Has Risen from the Dead! which her Government friends had bought for her, but toward the end of Belief in demons was universal, Required fields are marked *. glad to escape the publicity connected with this great honor and said, "When people think of missionaries they don't tend to think very positively about them but she was very different," she said. Slessor was the daughter of a Scottish shoemaker and his wife, who was a weaver. Published in the Women's Missionary Magazine [July 1908] [July 1908] . A few weeks later she Through all of these, people came to know Christ. Her success was so great that the British Government, in 1905, again asked She also adopted other children. Lead the way and I will follow. many labors and difficulties she always testified of Christ. Yohannan, which inspired numerous charities like GFA World Canada, to assist the poor and deprived worldwide, issued this Special Report on Child Sponsorship... COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — A national movement to shake up older Americans' approach to retirement is taking aim at one of the most serious problems plaguing many seniors: loneliness. For many years and she lived in a fine home and drove around in a motor car. The grave is covered with red and blue flowers and a corrugated iron building can be seen in the background.
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