The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-12-16

HOW BISHOP TAYLOR IN AFRICA.
who have never yet heard of Christ or
the Bible. This part of the tour viii oc-
cupy the bishop several months, and his
only means of travelling will be on the
back of an or.
The prospect of a 500 mile journey
made in this manner under q tropical
sun, with an uncertain supply of food
that must at it's best be poor, would
seem very discouraging to a man of less
earnestness and vigor than the bishop,
bat he views it with less apprehension
than most men exhibit at travelling the
same distance in a palace ear He made
the journey to South America as o steer
age passenger in 1877, when he went to
establish his missions there, which shows
that to his eminently practical mind the
object of a journey is much more impor-
tant than personal comfort while max
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 hasa 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 be held in 1896.
A young niece of the bishop, DR.. Jen.
ME M. Taylor. a very skillful physician
and dentist, accompanies him. She il
going out with the specific purpose OF
fixing mp the teeth of the missionaries,
many of whom are sadly in need Of her
m~inistrations, as may be guessed from
the fact that some of them have been in
Africa since 1882 with no chance to have
any dental work done for them. The
Missionary society had q young man
trained for this especial work several
years ago, but he got frightened at the
reports of terrible mortality among
white people in Africa and backed out.
Miss Taylor will be obliged to accom-.
pany her uncle on all his visits to estab.
lished stations and in the intervals oil
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 man
alive he has fulfilled Christ's injunction
| to his disciples, 'sGo We into all the world
and preach the gospel to every creature
More fully than any other Methodist has
he accepted John Wesley's bold declara,
ton, 'sThe world is my parish" Yet his
| beginnings were humble enough, for he
had not even the advantage of an ordi.
nary collegiate education. He says hs
was graduated from BRUSH" college,
whose curriculum embraces such studies
as milking cows, splitting fence rails and
holding the plow handles. His finishing
course was in his fathers tannery, 'sand
that was the best Of all, he thinks.
Bishop Taylor is q native of Virgins
and was born in Rockbridge county May
Q, 1891. The bare narration of his lifei
work and experiences would all vol
umes. There IL scarcely . land upor
the globe which he has not visited and
In which he has not preached, and
preached successfully. He started out d.
an exhorter for the Baltimore conference
in 1641, and the general conference 81
the Methodist Episcopal church electei
him missionary bishop Of Africain 1854
The intervening years were filled will
hard and useful labor, and in those tha1
have passed since his elevation to til
~episcopate he has not spared himself.
Seven years q circuit preacher, q stree
preacher IN San Francisco during TIL,
gold excitement, seven years q home mis-
sionary, IA years helping to evangeliz1
colonies Of the British empire, the fathei
of the Methodist missions I'M India, fathe,
Of the Methodist missions in South Amer
lea, nine years bishop Of Africa and til,
author Of a dozen ~books-this ID th
monumental work the grand old mission
airy has done, and he still keeps at it.