HINDERER, David

[s. 311] : Of Schorndorf, in the Kingdom of Wiirttemberg. Mi ionary in Lagos, Western Africa, under the CMS. He was a graduate of the Basel Mi ionary Training school. After a short time of preparation at Abeokuta he was directed to go forward into the further interior and try to reach the Mohammedan Hausa This he did not succeed in doing; but on people. May 20, 1851, he was the first white man to enter the great town of Ibadan, the name of which was ever afterward a ociated with his own. In the following year he visited England and married Anna Martin, whose mi ionary life was as heroic and succe ful as her husband’s. During twenty eight years of labor in Western Africa, Mr. Hinderer did much pioneer work; and in 1874-5, when he paid his last visit to his old field, he opened up new work to the east of Lagos, leading in 1876 to the occupation of Ode Ondo by Charles Phillips, afterward bishop. Mr. Hinderer died in 1890, and in 1898 a new church was completed at Ibadan as a memorial to David and Anna Hinderer. Mr. Hinderer’s literary work was in the Yoruba language, and included a translation of the book of Isaiah, of the Pilgrim’s Progre , and of some hymns. He also revised Bishop Crowther’s translation of the Bible. 311