Transcriber’s Note: A reprint edition provided by the Negro UniversitiesPress, New York, 1969.
New original cover art included with this eBook isgranted to the public domain. Obvious typos were corrected.
Vol. 1 Boston, Mass., May 15, 1905 No. 1
Missionary Work and AfricanEducation
From The Baptist Missionary Magazine
Mystery becomesopportunity. Mr.Mott’s book,“The Pastorand ModernMissions,”contains thefollowingsummary:“One hundredyearsago Africa was a coast line only. Evenone generation ago, when Stanleyemerged from that continent with thelatest news of Livingstone, ninetenths of inner Africa remained unexplored.More than 600 white menhave given their lives to explore thisone continent. Now, however, H. R.Mill, D. Sc., formerly librarian ofthe Royal Geographical Society, canwell say, ‘The last quarter of thenineteenth century has filled the mapof Africa with authentic topographicdetails, and left few blanks of anysize.’ Bishop Hartzell says: ‘YesterdayAfrica was the continent ofhistory, of mystery, and of tragedy;today it is the continent of opportunity.’When Stanley, starting in1874, made his journey of 999 daysacross Africa, in the course of 7,000miles he never met a Christian.There was not a mission station, orchurch, or school on all that track.Now the chain of missions is almostcomplete from Mombasa to the mouthof the Congo, and there are scatteredthrough inner Africa hundreds ofchurches and Christian schools andover 100,000 native Christians.”
“Three distinct Africas are knownto the modern world—North Africa,where men go for health; South Africa,where they go for money; andCentral Africa, where they go foradventure. The first, the old Africaof Augustine and Carthage, everyone knows from history; the geographyof second, the Africa of theZulu and the diamond, has beentaught us by two universal educators,war and the stock exchange; but ourknowledge of the third, the Africa ofLivingstone and Stanley, is still fitlysymbolized by the vacant look uponour maps which tells how long thismysterious land has kept its secret.”So said Henry Drummond in “TropicalAfrica” in 1888; the mystery isnow revealed; we see an open doorfor the gospel of love, light and life.
The African work of our MissionaryUnion is in the Congo Free State.The mission was adopted by us in1884. There are now 8 stations; 31missionaries and were last year 306native helpers; 13 churches with3,3692 members; 135 schools, with4,456 pupils. [Transcriber’s Note: obviously, 3,3692 is a misprint.3,692 members s BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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