The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-02-01

ships went nearly 5000 years ago ana
gathered, in single voyage extending
over three years, gold amounting t6
more than "a, 600, COO The ruins of the
old mines are still there. There are
quite number Of paying gold mines
within few miles of New UmtaIi. Ghe
agricultural possibilities of the regi3..
are also great. Here among the Eu-
ropeans, as the population increases anu
the plans are developed, will be estaG-
lished an institution of learning where
in addition to the ordinary work of ed
ucation we can have missionary train
ing school for the education of white
teachers and missionaries, Goth male
and female, who are willing to conse-
crate their lives to the redemption Of
Africa
"At Old UmtaIi, across the pass, in
a beautiful valley through which flow
two mountain streams, my plan is to
develop on large scale a missionary
station for the natives. The natives here
are mostly Mashonas. The principal
chief lives nearby. These natives are
intelligent, and easily take to agricul-
tural and other industrial pursuits
They also take readily to mechanics. At
thus point the government has granted
Ms without expense plots Of land and
buildings IN the town worth at least
$50, 0OO. 1t has also made a concession
of land nearby where we can have gar
dens and an experimental farming sta
tloH and has offered a large concession
of land farther north in the Inyanga
country, where the plateau varies from
4, 600 to 5000 feet above the sea. In
that region The Right Hon Cecil Rhodes
has great experimental farm, where
he is spending large sums upon live
stock and agricultural products his
purpose being to demonstrate what lines
of agricultural development are possible
in that climate and territory.
"My plan for the organization of this
central missionary station includes sew
eral departments, 10 the first place, I
purpose to organize industrial schools
in agriculture, carpentry, briokmaking
and such other industries as may be
made profitable and to teach the natives
how to gain a livelihood and develop
independent and successful communi-
ties. Il is proposed to use hospital and
medical work as an evangeIizing
agency, on the plans which are most
approved in our best foreign missionary
work in other countries.
Zone of the great forces to be broken
among the native heather in Africa is
the power Of the fetch doctor. I have
seen many specimens of these fends in
human shape. They represent the in
Eerited shrewdness and cunning of CEN
turtles. They stand as the accredited
controllers of evil spirits which are
supposed by the natives to inhabit the
air and to be the sources of innumerable
ills, either directly or through human
agency. These fends have the power of
life and death by pointing out to a petty
king persons who in their Judgment
have been the cause of some evil, either
to the tribe or its prosperity, or to some
individual. They have some native
remedies which frequently work good
results, and occasionally they can do
some surgery, but in the mass they are
blight and a curse upon the native
multitudes. Their power is immense,
and they play upon the superstition of
the natives with tremendous effect. The
remedy for this is the quiet, patient,
consecrated Christian physician, who
in the spirit and with the methods of
Christ shall so about and show to the
people better way of life.
There will be schools for bows and
girls and orphanages for little children,
who will be trained under Christian
matrons separate from ebarbarous, hea-
then associations. The church, with its
services in the native language, will of
course be an important and central fac
tor. Here it is believed will be gathered
IN a few years large company of young
native boys and girls who later on will
go out as leaders in industry, education
and morality AMONG the vast heatbcu
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