In May a more spacious home was occupied at 17 Johnson Street, Monrovia, and the Fausts traveled by ship to a new assignment at Harper City on Cape Palmas.

BACK TO HARPER AFTER FIFTY YEARS

Some fifty years had gone by since the Zion’s Watch Tower study classes at Harper were disrupted by the death of the Gibson brothers. Now on that picturesque, palm-dotted cape jutting into the Atlantic, the Fausts found a ready response. After only four months, ten publishers were reporting field service.

Nevertheless, the missionaries encountered opposition from the “Prophets.” Several times a week, these fanatical religionists would dress in white robes and march through the streets carrying lanterns, chanting, shouting, beating drums and stopping now and then to go into a sort of shuffling dance. They were great believers in “healing.” When one of the missionaries became sick and had to go to the hospital, the “Prophets” surrounded the missionary home gibing: “Servant of God get sick and go to hospital? You not God servant; you false prophets!” During the next few weeks these false religionists would come to the missionary home in the dead of night and silently go through very strange antics and motions, undoubtedly intended to drive the missionaries away by weaving a spell.

But the Fausts remained, and one day the leader of this band of fanatics obtained some Watch Tower literature.

For a time Sister Faust was in a private hospital at Pleebo, eighteen miles (29 kilometers) away. While there, she studied the Bible with William David, and soon others of the family were learning the truth. Among them were three older illiterate women, who eventually became Sisters Blondie, Tardie, and Kardie, a familiar sight in Pleebo as they preached the truth enthusiastically in their native Grebo language.

Another relative who began studying at this time was Frank Williams and he became the first native Liberian to attend Gilead School, graduating at the Divine Will International Assembly, Yankee Stadium, New York city, in 1958. Yet another relative to begin studying was Jacob Wah, small in stature but keen in knowledge and speaking ability.