Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-01-11
TO DARKEST AFRICA.
The Venerable Bishop Taylor's
Journey to Tie Congo.

"Yonug man, good steel wa.
never spoiled by wear. Rust is
what does it-rust rust rust"
That was the venerable Bishop
Taylor.s reply to the suggestion of
a young minister that it would be
legitimate for him to retire from
active work now and leave the
management of affairs in his
African diocese to his subordinates.
The good old bishop absolutely
refuses to give himself up to
either rest or rust and started off
on his recent journey from New
York to his bishopric in the dark
continent with more nerve and
hopefulness than many youLger
people feel on the eve of a pleasure
trip to Europe. He is 70 years old
but he showed no hesitancy in un-
dertaking journey that might
easily dishearten a man of 25.
TIE object of Bishop Taylor's
Ijouney is TO visit all his African
missions, so that be can gee. for
himself just how things are going
on, help and encourage the resi-
dent missionaries, straighten out
tangled affairs and extend the
work wherever possible. He ex-
poets to travel much farther into
the Congo country than any
missionary has ever yet gone and
to preach the gospel to black
savages who have never yet heard
of Christ or the Bible. This part
of the tour will occupy the bishop
several months, and his only
means of travelling will be on the
back of an OK.
The prospect of a 500 mile
Journey made in this manner un-
der tropical sun, with an uncer-
tain 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, but he views it with less
apprehension than most men ex-
hibit at travelling the same dis
tance in a palace car. He made,
the journey to South America as
4 .staerage passenger I'd ISs7z7 when
he went to establish his missions
there, which shows that to his
eminently practical mind the OBJ
ject of a journey is much more i'm
portant than personal comfort
while making it.
The bishop will go first to
Liberia, where he has established
q 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
: journeys 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 under
!. standing when he went away was
| that he would return in time for
the quadrennial general conference
of his chu1ch, which will be held
=" in 1896.
"A young niece of the bishop,
DR.. Jennie M. Taylor very skill
l full physician and dentist, accom-
panies him. She is going out with
!, the specific purpose Of fixing up
the teeth of the missionaries, many
of whom arc sadly in need Of her
ministrations, as may be guessed
from the fact that some of the
them have been in Africa since
1882 with no chance to have any
dental work done for them. The
Missionary society had a young
man trained for this especial work
several years ago, but he got frigh-
tened at the reports of terrible
( mortality among white people in
! Africa and backed out. Miss Tay-
! lor will be obliged to accompany
; her uncle on all his visits to estab-
. lished stations and in the Intervals
: of her professional labors will un-
I dertake ordinary missionary work
The success of Bishop Taylor's
missions is as remarkab bic as it is
3 extraordinary. More closely than
: other man alive he has fulfilled
Christ's injunction to his disciples
$50 ye into all the world ano
preach the gospel to every creature
s More fully than any other Meth
g odist has he accepted John Wes
L. ley's bold declaration, "The worlc
6 is my parish" Yet his beginning