Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-12-16

HOW BISHOP TAYLOR TRAVELS IN AFRICA. who have never yet heard of Christ or the Bible. This part of the tour will oc- cupy the bishop several months, and his only means of travelling will be on the back of an OK.
 The prospect of 900 mile journey made in this manner under tropical sun, with an uncertain supply of food that Tmust at its best be poor, would seem very discouraging to a man of less earnestneSS and vigor than the bishop, but he views it with less apprehension than most men exhibit at travelling the same distance in n palace car. He made the journey to South America as a steer age passenger in 1S17, when he went tC establish his missions there which shows that to his eminently practical mind the object of q journey is much more impor tant than personal comfort while mak ing it.
 The bishop will go first to Liberia where he has established a Methodist conference, which will meet during his stay. From there he will go to St. Paul de Loanda, where he has mission house of iron, making that the base of his jour neys to the different stations in Angola and up the Congo. He will not return to the United States for at least two years and probably longer. The only definite understanding when he went away was that he would return in time for the Quadrennial general conference of his church, which will ha held in 1896
 A young niece of the bishop. Dr. Jen ne M. Taylor. a very skillfuI physician and dentist. accompanies him. She i, going out with the specific purpose oi fixing up the teeth If the missionaries many of whom are sadly i'll need of hcl ministrations, as may be guessed from the fact that some of them have been il Africa since 1882 with no chance to have any dental work done for them. Int Missionary society had young mar trained for this especial work several years ago, but he got frightened at the reports of terrible mortality among white people in Africa a.d backed out. Miss Taylor will be obliged to accom-. pany her uncle on all his visits to estab- lished stations and in the intervals oi her professional labors will undertake ordinary missionary work.
 The success of Bishop Taylor's mis sions is as remarkable as it is extraordi, nary. More closely than any other mar alive he has fulfilled Christ's injunction to his disciples, ''Go ye into all the worlc and preach the gospel to every creature. More fully than any other Methodist Ina. he accepted John Wesley's bold declara tion. The world is my parish" Yet his beginnings were humble enough. for ht had not even the advantage of an ordi nary collegiate education. He says he was graduated from Brush" college whose curr;.ulum cmbraces-such studies as milking COWS, splitting fence rails an6 holding tho blow handles. His finishing course was in his fathers tannery, ''and that was the best of all." he thinks.
 Bishop Taylor is q native of Virginia and was born in Rockbridge county May 2, 1891. Tho bare narration of his lifc's work and experiences would fill vol umes. There is scarcely land upon the globe which he has not visited and in which he has not preached. and preached successfully. He started out as an exhorter for the Baltimore conference in 1S41. and the general conference oi the Methodist Episcopal church elected him missionary bishop of Africa in 1884 The intervening years were filled with hard and useful labor, and in those that