Congo Cannibals Won

 Congo Cannibals Won 

Masaba was employed twenty-five years 

ago by Congo officials to commandeer rubber 

gatherers, men or women. He had authority, 

and when men would not go with him to 

work, he would shoot them down, cut them 

up, put them in a pot, add palm oil, cook 

them, and eat them. He ate his hundred! 

All the natives knew him. He was also the 

executioner for his chief, hacking off men's 

heads, and was known as the most cruel 

monster in all that Congo country. 

In December, 1927, he came to the Deti 

Hill station, directed by the Heart of Africa 

Mission, and inquired for Ma Risasi (Miss 

Mary Rees, whose African name means Miss 

Bullets, because she shoots the Gospel so 

fast). She treks down among the villages 

around Deti, alone, wades the streams, 

tackles big black men about their sins, 

preaches about hell and Heaven and God's 

requirement of righteousness. " Ma Risasi," 

said this merciless black, " tell me the story 

you're telling in the villages ; I feel my sin ; 

I must get rid of my sin ; I must know God. 

Ma Risasi, tell me the story you've been 

telling in the villages." 

She told of the sacrifice on the Cross, ex- 

plained the hope of Heaven. The power of 

sin was broken ; a new dynamic came in. 

Since then he has been witnessing. He is 

learning to read, though probably fifty years 

old; he has started a school in his village; 

and four months after his conversion, made