Religion: Missionaries

Nkol Mvolan, meaning ''Hill of Help," is a Presbyterian station in Cameroons, West Africa. There, deeper in the jungle than any other Presbyterian missionaries, Dr. & Mrs. George W. Thorne tend the bodies and souls of blackamoors, some of whom still vividly remember their cannibal fathers and cannibal mothers.

Last Sunday night and the Sunday before, a short-wave broadcasting station in Pittsburgh took a half hour of worship to the thousands of Presbyterians, Baptist and Methodist missionaries in every land.

The Thornes in their house of thatch heard the words of scripture and a prayer in their...

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