St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-02
SANDY HAD SUFFICIENT.
The Futility of Missionary Effort
in Liberia.


The bark Liberia, which has been en-
gagged in the transportation of negroes
to the American colony in Africa, yes
terday returned to this port after an ab-
sence of seventy-siX days, says the New
York Times. She had on board as pas
sengers three missionaries, whose efforts
to eVangeliZe that section of the Dark
Continent to which. negro emigration
has lately been headed had not met
with striking success.
One of the. trio'is Rev: Sandy Wash
ington, a colored man who halls from
st. Paul, Mimi. Rev. Sandy was sent
out by the Pilgrims Baptist church, OF
st. Paul. He came back with the con-
viction that the task to which he had
been assigned was hopeless one.
A predetermined person is Sandy,
and when he undertook the job of con-
vertng the unciviiized he treated it
practically. Finding eXhOrtatlOnS UNI
availing he supplemented his oratorlcal
efforts by gifts of wearing apparel to his
listeners.
The chief of village who had kept
aloof from the meetings was subsidized
by the present OF a plug hat. and lent
his presence to one of the gatherings:
When the meeting was over lie offered
to attend again for the consideration of
another tile. The missionary did not
have any more hats, So compromise
was effected by the gift of all overcoat:
Rev. Sandy left fifteen converts behind
him in that village, all decked Ill some
article of his wearing apparel.
Sandy next esSayed to make converts
in the Cooley country. where chief by
the name Of Dindo reigned supreme. 1t
cost the good missionary nearly all OF
his clothes to make Dindo see the error
of his WAYS. His effort at the next vii
lage at which he stopped for reform pur-
poses was the least satisfactory of all.
The fame of his muniticence had pre-
coded MIN, and when the eXpectant
chief received no gift, relations between
the two became very much strained.
Sandy got back to his starting point
convinced that missionary work in such
circumstances was little too much OF
strain on his capital to be INDUCED III
at length.
Another missionary whose experience
has been equally unsatisfactory is
Abraham Bostwick. who left Atlanta,
Ga, one year ago at the behest OF the
Liberian Missionary society. On ar
rival at Monrovia lie was delegated to
visit an interior settlement. The eli
Illdlc pIONGu lOO lOl Liius anu iiO
returned in bad health and almost deStl-
tute. He is now interested in knowing
how to get back to his home in Atlanta.
The third of the returning trio is
very intelligent white missionary, who
was sent out by the International Mis-
Sionary Society of st. Paul. He spent
fifteen months in the vicinity Of Sierra
Leona, and apparently does not consider
the outlook very promising. The Amer
lean negro emigrant, he says, disavows
his nationality on arrival in Africa and
haughtily speaks of himself as Eu-
ropean. He also manages to attract at
tention by the "lots of style" he puts
on, and generally refers to the natives
as AFRICAN heathens." His greatest
ambition, the missionary says, is to have
plenty of rum to drink and to own
slave. Slavery, he adds, is quite CON-
mon in the various settlements.
Besides the missionaries, the Liberia
had as passengers thirteen monkeys,