Birmingham age-herald., 1895-10-01
THE SOUTH IN AFRICA.

It is known to many of the readers of
 the Age-Herald that Alabama has given
 in the person and work of the late Rev.
 $. N. Lapsley one of the most useful men
 that has recently gone to the dark con
 tinent to aid in it's enlightenment. It is
 equally well known that along with him
 went the Rev. w. H. Sheppard, colored
 minister, the product of the care and
 training of the Southern Presbyterian
 church. through its Theological seminary
 at Tuskaloosa. These two together
 founded mission in the heart of Africa,
 going further in than any protestants.
 That mission has been reinforced from
 time to time by white missionaries and by
 colored missionaries. male and female.
 They have endured the trials of the jour
 ney thither the fearful heat there, the
 wasting of the awful fever, absence from
 home and loved ones. Their toll has
 been rewarded recently by the baptism of
 thirty-five converts from heathenism.
 For year there has been on the mission
 station only two white persons. pr. and
 Mrs. Snyder They have both been se-
 verely attacked by the fever more than
 once It has resulted in so reducing Mrs.
 Snyder's power of resistance that unless
 she is soon relieved for trip home she
 must die. Facing this condition of af-
 fairs the foreign mission authorities of
 the Southern Presbyterian church issued
 a call for one or more white volunteers to go at once.
 For two years MT. S. P. Werner, the brilliant son of Hon. J. s. Werner of Col
 umbia. S. C., has felt it to be his duty to go there as a missionary. He has de- bated the matter seriously A month or more ago the foreign mission secretary wrote to MT. Werner and asked him if he would not go at this crisis. The result is that he has been appointed and hopes to loo NAxr orlr INxrf f11a Ia NfH fo1xA This young man represents some of the oldest southern families-on his fathers side the Perrys and Verners of South Carolina. on his mothers the Battles and Philipses of North Carolina. He was graduated from the College of South Car olina with most distinguished honors, and is making for himself a first rate rep utation for clear and vigorous thought and for considerable power as a public speaker.
 He was this week examined by the | Tuskaloosa presbytery with a view to ordination as missionary to the Congo | Free State, and though he had no spe- | cial training for this work, he sustained | himself through a thorough examina- | ton with marked ability and readiness. l He was ordained on Wednesday, the 18th. | Along with him there will go MT. Joseph | Phipps, a colored man, and a native of | the Island of St. Christopher, in the | West Indies, the grandson of a native of | the Congo. He came to this country | some six years ago and found employ
 ment in a travelling show of some sort.
 His business was to spit fire and dance | barefoot on broken glass bottles. It might be we'll for him to carry a pocket l full of his fire along in case of danger | from the natives. He was converted in | Scranton, Pa., and sent by friends to | Moody's institute in Chicago for training l He impresses all who see him with his l deep and intelligent piety, and esneci- | ally with his sense of responsibil''> | carry the gospel to his people iI' ne | Congo
 Some of the most thoughtful men in | the south are beginning to watch these | movements with the deepest interest | Can it be that it is to be the great priv | ilege of the southern Christians to raise up from the colored people around them