New-York tribune., 1900-04-29
BLACKS PRA YING FOR WHITES
CONVERTED AFRICANS IMPLORED GOD
TO PREVENT THE BOER WAR.

The Rev. Charles S Morris. graduate OF the
Newton Theological Seminary, near Boston and
delegate to the Ecumencal Council has just re-
turned from South Africa where he spent the
greater part of a year in examining the Industrial
situation among the kaffirs. Zulus and Matabeles.
He a coored man. and went to Africa under
the auspices of the African Baptist Industrial Mis-
sionary Society.
81 started for Africa last June" said Mr.. Morris
yesterday, "and first visited Zuluand. Then 1
went through Cape Colony, and successfully to the
West Coast. French Senegamba and Liberia.
shall go back Liberia, where I expect TO
remain for long time
THE raw Kaffir is magnificent savage, tall and
strong and vigorous, with a great big three story
head and intelligence looking of the windows.
] saw few If any below five feet inches in
height, while many of them still taller. I
surprised and delighted with their intelligence
and the felicity of their welcome to a stranger.
There is a great religious upheaval going on in
South Africa at the present time. The natives
are breaking away from the churches which
gelized them. and organizing churches of their
own. Ten thousand have recently left the Wes-
leyan Church and have asked Bishop Turner. of
the African Methodist Church, of this country to
become their Bishop. Twelve hundred and fifty
Joined the Baptist Church, and 2O0O came out Of
the Church of Scotland and founded church of
their In Natal where the American Board
have organized ten independent Zulu churches.
The natives seem to he especially anxious to
into contact with American negro religious
teachers. They look up to negroes from this coun-
try and expect great things from They in
fuenced largely. perhaps by a prophecy made by
Tscecana. of their great native prophets one
hundred years He told them and left on rec
ord the prophecy that people would from
across the and build wagon roads iron
roads and after them would a black people
from across the who would bring them a great
book and tell them of the God. Last year a
coored Baptist missionary worked among them
and established stations and ba ptzed two hundred
Christians
Il particularly interested in the Industrial
capabilities of the natives. as do believe that
God intended that the people OF this country
should be perpeually taxed support the mission
aries in South Africa. It would take ten times as
to reach all the savages Of South Africa The
They worked and never had to work They
are clothed by the sunlight and fed by gravitation
But naked Christian is an impossibty and
as soon as man gets converted he wants clothes
He doesn't know anything about crops and mar
what crops have value and how to raise them
Nearly all the great missions in South Africa are
giving attention 10 industrial possibilities
THE Zambesi Industrial Mission started eight
years ago raise coffee. Four years ago the col
cleared $4,000. two years ago 10000 and last wear
10000 This is marked and encoura ging in
crease from modest beginning. One hundred aud
seventy OF coffee produced and II will
cost forty tons Of the gross product to market it
This mission keeps thirty evangeists In the field
teaches e7S children and employs sixteen hundred