New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-08-11

Ren the service Of the Christian CHURCH and
has cos say that in Africa dear oId Agfa aon Una o
tallure We have sent our military forces down
ee weSt coast OF Africa we have crushed natl1Fs
we nave crushed them from the east. We nave
and squeeze of it its manhood and it's gold, and
all that 1t had worth keeping. The slave trader
mas marked Africa with the great req MARKS , 6'
blood from east TO west and from north to south.
and do you wonder that in few years we have
if you will Just listen to one facts. to thank
When | vent up the Congo first. as one of the
pioneers. not soul could tell you anything about
tongue; the Congo people knew nothing of our
tongue. There patient waiting and great sur
Poo We carried up a small steamer 200 miles in
pieces put her together explored the Congo River
for three thousand miles, thousand mics
straight ahead and the rivers running into H. we
prejudice which met the white man Fo on h heIp We
built up the kingdom of hope that in due course TcS
even the black continent OF africa W WI , Gg a.
Does it not often occur to some of you VINO are
ashamed of? ma read that when the Son of Man
denounced by Israel led to death by imp era
was His only companion in Simon of Cyrene3 from RON,
the North. the cross bearer with Jesus ana no i HOw
as though God had forgotten. like the Church, 20
tell the story TO that people that a 9dNi'"' va"
risen again from the dead.
HARDsHIPs OF MISSION WORK.
Now. NAV tell you some of the difficulties. and
help you understand some OF me naruS b,, G
mission work? intend to SPEAK tr btayy5-ep Who
suffer that field are too careful ABOUT a bem
Ne had to build our own houses see some or
you doing the same here We mad 70 suJ[, "G in
in companies, but alone. Only on one ocGasiom IA a
a fever had | a man to turn to who c9ula
speak my tongue In those cary We u h3d
our axe given to clear away the brusn ou IL!
9 Wfb fbe peope Natives came threatening to
down the station and drive us rom me I'd
coIored men that have never yet found native;
even among that cannbal tribe that then swaTnlTd
native in Africa that did not respond to tender
There are some Of us who think there IS nothing
in the black except cunning: consequently,
we have two kinds of laws to govern ourselves
and govern them We know nothing at all except
what the globe trotter has told us ABOUT bout mes
or in South Africa somewhere: and they are re
glorious helps 10 the deepening OF your 'ere s II
ask YOU 10 turn to men who experts in this
work who give r their d bnte is NO authority
on ethics With great elasticity OF conscience, II
Of t6em TheTe is that kind Of feeling which
makes it right to steal black man iahd, ouT " a
criminal offence to steal white mans hat we
who go out to preach the Gospel recognize ms
truth that there is God who Goes s R25 I2 Se
is governed by the great eternal law Of right
his his light The African responds 70 your kindness
and through that we have established the Congo
We have to deal with the trader, who is by no
means a help always. / have heard Mr.. Morgan
speak very strongly upon this platform upon some
subjects. 7 wish I could tell you some or me
things that can be witnessed on the West Coast
OF Africa. I see here before me some men who
have travelled and served on that coast. am
speaking before men who have lived on that coast
and served the Lord Jesus Christ there. and !
think I speak without any fear or contraGlg,,
ton that in many cases-not in all; for, thank God
there are good traders-but in many cases the
great obstacle to the spread o. truth is on the
part Of that class Of individuals who live simply
for the Iusts of the flesh, for the greed that has
approached the bestial In lite and dare not SPEAK
the thoughts Of his own heart when at home
we have the slave trader-nOt thing OF the past
Lieutenant Cameron stated that he had received
"A letter describing raid. and after the rald
YOU could trace which way the caravan went by