Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-06-08
COLUMN.
EDITED by JoSEsBoRo W. c. T. I.
A paper written and read by Ella l.,
Mason, before the Womans Missionary
Society of the NJ. E. Church South.
AFRICA.

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Mason, before the Womans Missionary
OF the NJ. E. Church South.
AFRICA.
Gratitude for Gods unspeakable
Gift is the keynote of the Woman S
Missionary Society. The Gift of his
son means even more to woman than
to man, for without Christ her deg
radiation and sorrows are deeper than
his. She recognizes in her Savior the
true Emancipation of Woman and her
heart goes out to him with infinite
love when she compares the blessed
ness of her condition with the misery
of her sister in heather lands. This
gratitude prompted her to respond TO
the call of God. Here Lord am i,
what wilt thou have me do
The Missionaries are at work every
where. From the ice girt north, to the
sun scorched south. The great obstacle
to the progress of Missionary work to
day is the liquor traffic carried from
the christian lands where it is legalized
to the lands where the heather rellg
O forbid the manufacture and use
of all intoxicants. The Eldorado OF
ardent spirits is Africa. Thedark con
tinent of the darkest curse Of human
ity. The weak native here esems
unable TO resist this terrible destroyer,
and the unanimous testimony of Mis-
sionaries is that the natural cruelty
and bloodthirstyness of Africans are
kindled into the madness of lemons
by the firewater, and beneath the
wounds of European traders this poor
land lies bleeding at every pore. Bishop
Penrick of the Episcopal church says
that when he reached Africa the first
word he heard from African lips was
an oath, showing that the devil s Mis-
sionaries had outstriped the mission
aries of Christ. The steamer on which
he sailed from Liverpool carried four
missionaries and $4,000 worth of rum
to the west coast of Africa; and week
ly that amount is forced upon her by q
christian nation. So the missionaries
have not only to battle with heather
ism, but this internal machinery OF
satan. West Africa is, if possible, in a
still more deplorable state. Every small
harbor on the coast sucks in the deadly
tide of sulphuric acid sugar and water,
which these heartless traders present
as brandy, gin, etc.
The New York Times. q secular pa
per, says ON this subject, every shiI
that takes missionaries to Africa car
ries enough poisonous rum and gin tt
offset in evil the good effects of
thousand missionaries. So the dread
full tale of ruin, physical, mental, so
cial moral and spiritual, goes on
Mission work is made almost impossi
BILE, for every fine instinct is blulltet
and the moral character 30 demora
lized that appeals to their self respect
conscience, love of home or virtue, fal
like seed upon the unbroken rock.
Could we send our missionaries an,
teachers as we now do and at the sam
| time keep back the liquor traffic
, would not be long until the time whel
f ''the knowledge of the glory of tn
Lord should cover the earth as tn
+ waters cover the sea and angels ber
ding from throne and sphere woul
hush the music of the + harps to liste
to the strain now has come saliva
y ton" Can we not, ought we not eac
one ask the question Lord VIII;
would thou have me do to aid j
abolishing this great will"
s. There is explosive power enough
r the latent membership of the Christia
churches i'll this country today to bio
the rum business out Of e~xistance.
h. can be done just as quickly as son
Sc millionsof processing christian either
re can get their votes into u ballot DO
u Here is where the charge must
A. placed to do the work. Would tn
st we could have u blast of this no
e dynamite that would remove at on
l. and forever from the pathway of MI
the fearful reef of the liquor traffic.