The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-03-06


by colonization, civilization, and the ex
tension of Christianity; redeem the
| Dark Continent and develope it's Won
derful resources for the benefit of the
/ United States, Liberia and Africa. and
the extension of the Gospel of Jesus
/ Christ, recross the Continent to Egypt,
and southwark to the Free Congo States,
| thus converting the Pagan and the Ma
hommetan natives of Africa to Chris
| tianity.
Let the liberal and religious people of
our country start a movement for the
purpose of aiding missionary work, by
organizing societies in their congrega-
lions, especially in reference to the work,
assisting the new Soudan Pioneer Mis-
sion, lately started in the West-in Hi
nois, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota and
| Wisconsin, under the direction of I. H.
Grattan Guinness, ID. D., f. r. Ct. S., the
organizer of the Congo Mission and the
North Africa Missions He has estab-
lished in Minneapolis, Mimi, an Inter
Denominational Missionary Training In
stitute.
The paper of the mission, The Soqtooqa
and the Regions Beyond, edited by I. III.
Grattan Guinness, f. I'll. Reyell, Chicago,
publisher, monthly, so cents per annum.
Moravia in Liberia has been selected as
the base of these missionary operations
in the Soudan, using house of halt and
stores for goods &C., the mansion which
formerly belonged to President Roberts,
| (the first president of Liberia), which is
rented from his widow for missionary
purposes. 1t is q large brick house,
standing on hill overlooking the sea,
and is known as the Presidents Man
| sion.
ine first outgoing party of mlsslona-
ries were expected to sail for Africa in
| the month of December, 1889. From Mo-
ravia they will extend their mission sta
tions through Liberia, across the Kong
heart of Africa.
Let the Christian people of the United
States aid this enterprise, contribute
money to the sSoudan Pioneer. Mission,
also the American Colonization Society,
and to the missions already Established
in Liberia, those under Bishop Ferguson,
the mission of the NJ. E. Church, in
charge of Bishop Taylor, the missions of
the Baptist, Presbyterian and Lutheran
Churches.
Then the light will shine ON Africa's
shore; the Gospel of Christ will pene-
trate across the Continent through the
Soudan and the Congo Regions into the
dark places Paganism and Mahommet-
ism will be succeeded by Christianity.
A number of the educated Christian
young men, the secretaries of the Young
Mems Christian Associations of our West
ern States, have devoted their talents
and time to this work to be accomplished
among the natives of Africa. The white
man laboring to redeem the negro of
Africa-to civiliize and Christianize the
African,
Why should not the educated Chris
tian colored man of this country make
for the redemption of his own race an
equal sacrifice for the honor and glory
of God and His Son Jesus Christ.
No force OF compulsion will be used to
induce the emigrants of the colored race
to leave their present homes in the Uni
ted States to seek new homes in Africa.
Only colored men of character, relia-
bic in their principles of morality and
industry, having good standing in their
respective communities, will be furnish
cd means to engage as workers in this
Soudan enterprise. The idle, dissipated,
ignorant, worthless man or woman will
not be desired or received as emigants to
Africa, for the presence Of the idle and
worthless is not wanted across the the
water as citizens of the Dark Continent
Only useful, reliable, industrious men
and women will receive aid from the
charitable people of the United States,
for the object is not to drain out of the
Southland the worthless negro or mulat-
to to become curse to the native and the
AmericO-African, a clog and tax on their
efforts. Stringent laws, police regula-
tons will have to be enacted to control
this class of citizens and reform them in
time into good citizens only such as will
advance the progress Of labor, business
education, the preaching and expound-
ing of the Gospel to the heather will be
received. The advancement of the ma
tives of Africa is the end desired and
not wished for, and their demora lizatien
and destruction.
Only those persons who are suitable to
colonize and to direct and lead as the
country can be developed, will be select
! ed. Those who go to Africa, either black,
brown or white, will be on a charitable,
Christian and honorable mission.
The work proposed will have to stand
ON its own merits, and to secure success
the agents selected must be of reaponsi
BILE, truly Christian character and habits
The American Colonization Society
have already accomplished a great work
in establishing the Free Black Republic
of Liberia.
The African Repository for January,
1890, reports the roll of emigrants for
Liberia up to date, Oct. 1st, 1889, a total
of 16, 1872 emigrants settled in Liberia by
the American Colonization Society. This
number is exclusive of those settled by
the Maryland Colonization Society in the
Maryland Colony-Cape Palmar-now
forming the county of Maryland OF the
Republic of Liberia.
If Congress will pass an act to aid in
the establishment of a line of monthly
steamers to carry the mails direct be-
tween the ports of the United States and
West Africa, as largely promising to pro-
mote American commerce, and as tend
ing to the extension of freedom, human
ity, civilization and Christianity in one
of the richest marts and most popular
portions of the world, and will
aid the American colonization So
ciety by a moderate appropriation of
money by act OF congress to enable this
truly philanthropical society, that has
| in the past accomplished such wonderful
results in establishing the Republic of
Liberia in Africa, through it's president,
Hon. John H. B. Latrobe, of Baltimore,
and William Coppinger, its secretary
and treasurer, and It's able executive
committee, who will use all funds placed