ACCA, See Acre. ACCRA

[s. 21] : A town on the Gold Coast, W. Africa; station of the WMS, with 3 mi ionaries and 34 It has 30 native workers, men and worpen. The National outstations and 2 village schools. Baptist Convention (U. S.) also opened a station The number of profe ing Chris here in 1900. tians found at Accra is about 650. The name is also written Akra. This language ACCRA, or Ga language: belongs to the negro family of African languages, and is spoken by about 100,000 people living in the region of the Volta river. Gold Coast Colony, W. Africa. It is written with Roman letters. ACRE (St. Jean d’Acre): A seaport on the coast of Palestine, which was celebrated during the It is a strongly Mohammedan town, Crusades. surrounded by a wall and used as a place of One of the detention for political prisoners. recognized heads of the Babis resides here in banishment, and hence directs and encourages his followers in Persia and elsewhere. Acre is a station of the CMS, with 7 mi ionaries and 20 native workers, men and women; there is also a hospital with two dispensaries in the outstations, and there are 8 schools. Taking the town and its outstations together, the number of com- Adnbazar Africa municants is about 100, mostly from branches of the Oriental Church. 22