, 1881-04-03


sruuert M career of tilt prupliet know mot'i-
iur, except that he died III Arkansas. Il1nse
Win Wol}t. have further information co1t~
cerI,ing him are referred to A1r. william j..
Stones interesting book, entitled "alatthlas
and His Impostrres; or. the Progress OF fa-
naticism. New York; 1885,"
QUEER MISSIONARIES.
SCOTCH CHURCH METHODS FOR CONFETTI
ING -iFR1cA-TuE. LASH, THE H1FLr, THE
BIBLE, TIE FL.aMi;E-AC.
Tue religious papers Of Great Britain come
laden with missionary scandal from Central
Africa such as has not beeI heard Of since
the days of the English mission to the South
Sea Islands, The facts, as we find them con-
densed III the London CArtstf1n Nortd ana
in the New York Independent, are briefly
these:
IN 1916 the Church of Scotland undertook
to found Christian colony on tile 5hlie
River, near the southern end Of Lake Nyas-
81, Central Africa. La'Ns was purchased,
and 4 medical missionary, DR.. Macklln, anu
five artisans were sent out. The Free Cnnfcif
Mission at Llyingstonfa, i'll the same reeloh'
was to supply the new enterprise WITH tehl
uorary clerical head. This it did for about q
wear, when the new. mission, wtlea}t mad
been named after DR.. LiyinEston's blftll-
place, B1aMtyre, received ill ordained mis-
sionary direct from Scotland III the person OF
the Rev. Duff Macdonald, who, for sufficient
cause, as will appear, has been recalled. 4
Mr.. Chlrnside, Of 1olitlon, Inns been travelling
in Central Africa on cohi!nerctat business,
and he saw enough as an Engltslma1 and Il,
Christian to unke his blood boil and Ills face
tiugc with shame for our boastetl Christian
civilization When lie returned home in ISIS
lie published pamphlet giving details Of the
cruclties pr:tctccd by the missionary colo
nists upon the Ignorant saVase5 whom they
had gone to convert This pamphlet created
quite :, stir III religious and missionary cir
cles in Great Britain, and the religious press
demanded Il thorough investigation, be-
cause, as they said. if the facts were as al
legged, or if the Blantyrc methods Ut eyangel-
isl, were adopted for;all the missionary So
cieties, not 2lo0 could be gathered In Great
Britain for any missionary societies in ex-
istence The indignant feeling Of Christen-
dom repudiates and stignatzes such heart
less aud irresponsible conduct.
The Blantyre colonists, it appears, thought
that their possession OF territory carried with
it civil and ecclesiastical rights. and they
justified themselves OH that score and were
Justified also in their conduct by the African
Subcommittee Of tAe Missionary Society,
WHO certainly DuEut tu lIetE OCekAA
aud to have cautioned their agents that any
display OF physical force for the repression
of crime or the redress Of wrongs was con-
trary to British law unless BY the authority
Of Consular agent zen or other representa,tiI;ve ,i;H
sionary Society could not, ignore or write
down the published scandals Of their agents,
and they sent n1lt the Rev. Dr.. Rankin to III
yustigate. lie was accompanied oy Mr.
l'ringlc, an elder. who went at his own
,,f,r Fthar hotn I1ta1F mazda their rnnDFt
to the Society, and the Society has lait all
the facts bef0re the Commission Of the Gen
eral Assembly appointed last May. Hence
their publication iil detail n the British rellg-
ious papers and also III the independent,
which gives more attention to missionary
matters and displays more care i'll its selee-
ton IF such news than any other Of our re.
| ligious exchanges. The case IN its worst
co!onists, Dr.: Rankin and Mr. PrlnEle
give eleven instances of great cruelty
| practlced upon the natives by these Scotch
| Christians. The illegal acts covered period
| Of nearly two years, and some OF the worst
| were done under the eyes and sanction Of the
! Rev. Mr.. Macdonald. Seven Of the cases are
| for flogging. two for attacks on natives, one
| for an execution, and one for allowing boy
| hurt in quarrel to die overnight unasslsted:
Two Of the eases are dismissed for want OF
Jurisdiction, but the other nine were fully In,
yestigated. No. 2, a "habitual robber and
housebreaker," was sentenced In 1871, ny
James stswar Of the e. If Ms f5
| time, to receive nnety-six lashes on the bare
back,-sixty to be given ut once, and thirty
six at all Interval Of ten days, during which
he was to be kept in the stocks. John Bus
| the mission swore that after the sixty stripes
] had been laid on, the mans back was rubbed
| with salt and water and he was flogged again
| night Or two after. At first the instrument
] used was Il hammock clew, but Mr.. Stewart
! hot t,xyoc half hanVv Qnnnpn and 4