Word: lenshina
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...When Shall We Be Saved?" In twelve months 60,000 came to see Lenshina and be baptized. Even in the rainy season, they were coming by the hundreds. The pennies they bring her have mounted into a sizable treasury presided over by her fanatical husband Petrus, who, some say, is the power behind Lenshina. And the Presbyterian mission of Lubwa, the oldest in Northern Rhodesia, is on its last legs...
Last fall, in a desperate effort to regain some of the native Christians who had joined Lenshina's movement, five missionaries and a score of African evangelists visited hundreds of villages. But most of their former converts would not even listen; out of 4,000, only 400 agreed to desert Lenshina...
...clearing behind her hut she collected them, 500 or more at a time, ordered them on pain of death to close their eyes and listen to the voice of the Almighty-a strange, whistling noise. Spies from a nearby Roman Catholic mission risked opening their eyes and reported that Lenshina merely stepped behind a tree and blew a whistle...
...asks the Rev. John Eraser, 41, of Glasgow, who recently took over the Lubwa mission. "We must get out more into the field and teach the Bible. For ten years we've been too busy keeping the mission going to get out and do field work. Lenshina just stepped into a natural opportunity, I suppose...
...tribes of Northern Rhodesia have lived in a broken society since the white district commissioners weakened the authority of the tribal chiefs. White authorities and missions dealt with witchcraft as though it did not exist; Lenshina Mulenga fights it effectively, gives natives the sense of belonging to their own church, where salvation is in the here...