AuthorWole Akande

Praying like an idol worshiper

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The Church Missionary Society (CMS) of the Church of England was the first to bring the gospel to Nigeria. The society arrived in Badagry in 1842 and eventually set up a mission base in Abeokuta in July 1846. Listen to this account by Sarah Tucker about Abeokuta in 1854:  Their idols are of clay, or wood, or metal, and several are generally placed in one particular room in the house, where...

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