As a Sunday school prize little Catharine Mabie won a booklet which told the pathetic story of an African slave girl. From that time forward, it was her ambition to bring Christianity to Africa's heathen. Under the auspices of the Baptist missions society, she set out in 1898 to fight fever and fetish in the Belgian Congo.
Forty-three years later, leaving behind her enough native schools, dispensaries, and simple Christian faith to do credit to half a dozen missionaries, cheerful, chunky Dr. Mabie retired. Last week, at 74, she was back in Leopoldville. The occasion: the first West Central African Missionary Conference...
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