Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-01-31
STANLEY ON MrssloNAIsrEs,
Praise He Gives For the Work Doue !
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Praise He Gives For the Work Done II
Another letter from Mr.. Stanley, I'd
dressed to Mr.. Alexander L. Bruce ths
s0n-fn-law OF DIR. Lvingstone, was recently
published in London. Il 10 dated from
Cgogo, IN October last and Il must have
Stanley reached Mpwapwa and once NOR,
came within the purview Of civiliss.
tion. II gives an encouraging &C
count OF the great progress Of ChristiAnit,
u Central Africa, and Il shows that Bishoy,
Hannington's murderer, Mwanga, has me-
with his reward. The persecuted native
alliance with tho Mohammedans, 10 driys
him into exile, and he has now verified the
proverb about the devil in sickness by an.
nouncing himself very pious Catholic
He has been received in his flight by the
French missionaries, in noble requital o
charity and goodness for the brutality with
which he had driven them forth fro m hia
"what,S continues Mr.. Stanley, "would
have pleased Livingstone no much IL that
body of Christians can become, In twelve
years, so numerous and formidable az "a
deposo the most absolute and powerful
king In Africa, and hold their own against
any number of combinations hostile Ia
them. What can a man wish better for q
proof that Christianity IL possible In Africa!
/ forgot to say that each member OF the
1eputation of the Waganda which waited
upon me possessed Q prayer. book and the
gospel Of Matthew, printed in Kiganda,
presence, they went In 10 study their
prayer books. Five of their following &C.
cOmpanied us for tho purpose Of pursuing
their religious studies on the coast.
"I take this powerful body OF native
Christians In the heart Of Africa who pre-
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Ing monarch Indifferent or hostile to their
faith-as more substantial evidence of the
work OF Mackay than any number of i'm.
posing structures clustered together and
called a mission station could be. These
native Africans have endured the most
deadly persecutions-the stake and the
fire, the cord and the club, the sharp knife
and the rifle bullet have all been tried to
cause them to reject the teachings they
have absorbed. Stanch In their beliefs,
firm I'm their convictions, they have
held together stoutly and resolutely, and
Mackay and Ashe may point to those with
righteous pride as the results of their
labors to the good. kindly people at home
who trusted in them.
suppose you do not know Mackay
personally. Well. he Is Scotchman--th
toughest little fellow you could conceive.
Young, too--probably thirty-two years or
no, and bears the climate splendidly-even
his complexion is uninjured-not Afri-
canized yet by any means, despite twelve
years continued residence. These mission
socicties certainly contrive to pfoduce ex-
traOrdinary mon. Apropos Of Scotchnen,
can you tell mo why they succeed oftener
than other people? Take Mofiat, Living
stone, Mackay-real Scotchmen with the
bur. They stand pre- eminent above all other
missionaries, no matter of what NATIONAL
ity. IT is not because they are Scotchmen
that they aucceed IL Ia not bef.ausa thav
physically, mentally or morally--of that
we may rest assured--but It IL because
they have been more educated in one
thing than In all others. While I say this
review mentally all whom know and
have met, and repeat the statement con-
fidently. That one thing Is duty"