FALEALILI

[s. 247] : A district on the southern shore of Upolu, the most beautiful of the Samoan Station of the LMS (1836), with (1902) Islands. 1 mi ionary, 58 native workers, 31 preaching places, 31 schools and 4,926 profe ing Christians, of whom 1,248 are church members. sinia, FALLANGIA A settlement town on the Le er Ponga River, French Guinea, W. Africa. It was: the starting point for the mi ion among the Susus by the West Indies Church A ociation, Barbados. The first white mi ionaries who visited those regions were killed by the slave dealers, and in 1818 the mi ion was abandoned. The next who tried succumbed to the climate; but colored mi ionaries from Codrington College, Barbados, who arrived at Fallangia in 1855, had a fair succe . The work is now carried on by the Pongas Mi ion in connection with the SPG. FALLS CHER, Christian (of Germany): Forty three years before his death on February 11, 1901, Christian Falls cher went to Jerusalem to work under the late Bishop Gobat. Six years later he was sent by him to Nablus, as a lay preacher, and there he remained for thirty-seven years, first in connection with Bishop Gobat and Through his agency a later with the CMS. church, schools, mi ion house and house for the mi ion ladies were built, and a year before his death a firman was obtained which enabled the CMS to build a large and handsome hospital. In 1891 medical work was opened in Nablus and “Fnn-oheng-lisien Fetishism ladies were sent to help in schools and hospital He was loved and honored by Christian, duties. Muslim and Jew, and by his patient endurance and unpretending piety his influence became Notwithstanding his potent and far-reaching. active evangelistic work among the people, he learned the difficult Arabic language, and by his perpetual intercourse with the natives he gained a clear insight into its idioms and intricacies. He was enabled, in a remarkable degree, by the grace of God, to identify himself with the jieople among whom he lived, and in many legitimate He learned, in the Christian sense of the term, to lay aside much of his own personality and by coming into close sympathy with the people he was enabled to apprehend the Eastern point of view. ways to follow their customs. A town in the province FAN-CHf; ch030.xhtml n 248