The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-01-05

STANLEY5S TRUST Nv PROVL
DENCE.
Stanley has written brief review OF
his last matchless exploit. expressing
the strongest faith that from beginning
to end the hand Of God was in his ex-
petition. Divinity" he says, seems
to have hedged us while we iourneyed, "
impelling JUS whittier it would, effect
ing ''its own Will" but constantly
guiding and protecting US. lie re-
counts the horrible experiences through
which his forces were compelled to PISA.
involving disaster and death, death
and Disaster on every hand. and adds:
mot urtil both ,Emin and Jephsonl
were in my camp and the Egyptian
fugitives under our protection, did /
begin to see that ] was only carrying
out a higher plan than miQe. Ny own
designs were constantly frustrated by
unhappy circumstances endeavored
to steer my course as direct as possible.
but there was an unaccountable iunu-
ence at the helm.
81 gave as much good will to my du-
tiesas the strictest honor would compel.
Ny faith shat the purity Of my motive
deserved success was firm. but have
been conscious that the issues Of every
effort we're in other hands.
Not one officer who was with me
will forget the miseries he has endured
vet every one that started from his
home destined to march with the adj
vance column and share its wonderful
adventures is here to day safe, sound
and well. This is not due to me. Lieu
tenant Stairs was pierced with pois-
oned arrow like others; bat Others died
and he lives. Tbepoisoned tip came out
from under his heart eighteen months
after he waspierced. Jephson was four
months prisoner. with guards with
loaded rifles around him. That they
did not murder him is not due TO me. '
The great explorer gives other in
stances of an overruliDg power. re-
fuses to believe with the vulgar that
it was all the result Of luck, and
closes with a sentence which should be
natural enough for missionary Ike
DR.. Livingstone, but is rather unex-
pected from Stanley. Thanks be to
God forever and ever. The entire
Christian world will j)in with the re-
nowned traveller in thankfulness for
what he has been permitted to accom-
plish.
The full significance Of his discoveries
is not yet seen, but those discoveries
have sent q thrill Of exultation through
missionary Christianity, watching fer
opportunities to spread the knowledge
of the Gospel in ali the dark provinces
of Africa. and through the Information
al Congress, met in Belgium. to devise
measures to destroy the slave trade
Stanley believes in missionary enter
prise. Il was he who suggested the
great undertaking Of the Church Mis-
sienary Society in Uganda, on the north
shore of the Victoria Nyauza. II was
he who opened the way for the numer-
ous mission stations established on The
Congo. II is be, agair, who adds an
immense territory in equatorial Africa
to the field Of missionary obligation.
While the herald of science, humani-
ty and Christianity is emerging from
his grestest undertaking on the Est
Coast, a company is making ready on
the West Coast to lay railroad along
the Congo to Stanley Pool. The loco
motive will shortly thunder along the
rapids by which Stanley picked his way
a few wears ago with his little company
OF emaciated followers. and around
winch he subsequently constructed q
highway.
The African coast has already teen
nsrtitioned between the great powers OF
Europe; and EDglish, Germin and
Italian spheres OF Influence are
;ot,ed on the map Of the continent
Commerce is reaching further and
further into the interior. civilization II
marching along the highways It il
throwing up; and the outposts Of mia
slorary eudeavor, 90 isolated snd SC
ioaoly until now, are becoming centais
Of light and Influence. Sare'y COO
means 10 reclaim Africa. Stanley 4