The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-05

To the average American used to the
frequently intense rivalry OF the various
creeds about him. the deep comfy now
displayed by the various foreign mis-.
sionary societies is one Of the most re-
markahle things connected with the Who'll,
business OF winning the heather.
In tho late eighties band OF mission.
aries. sent out by tho American board OF
commissioners for foreign missions, es-
tablIshed station at Inhambane on the
coast OF Mozambique. The situation
proved so unhcalthful that after a few
years spent in unsuccessfully combating
disease the missionaries pctitioned the
board to permit them TO go 10 tho hills
and there begin their work anew. The
petition was granted. and three members
OF the band started for the interior to
spy out the land.
AS they were making for the hill coun-
try they fell In with an expedition OF ex-
ploration. headed by none other than the
renowned Cecil Rhodes He welcomed
the trio Of Americans, They explained
their object In penetrating into Gazaland
tnow Rhodesla), aud Rhodes was so IA
Vorably struck with the idea OF a mis-
sion that he indicated q spot where he
would like 10 have It established. and
ended by agreeing to give the mission
thousand acres OF land as soon as II
had been removed thence.
Tho location that the great South Afri-
can had named was entirely acceptable
to the missionaries, and they were soon
5oyously retracing their steps in the di-
rection OF disease-strickcn Inhambane
Arrived there after long and perllous
journey, they told the good news, and
preparations were at once started for
OF course, this took time. but suffice II
TO cay that after an interval of several
months the, fun band arrived at the
group OF English missionaries had dis
covered the country meantime and had
erected station on the site that Rhodes
had promised by word OF mouth to deed
over to tho Americans.
After the newcomers had gained par
tial control OF their surprise and disap-
pointment they saw that the English
doing good work. Tho trio that had
Travelled with Rhodes sought out the En-
glishmen. assured them that tho field
would not be invaded, wished them god
speed In their task and then departed
southward in search Of a suitable loca-
ton.
This was finally found about eighty
FIVE miles distant. Tho land was as fer
tile, the air as pure. the waters as sweet
the mountains es high ae roundabout the
site selected by Rhodes and uncon-
It was realized from the start that the
mission would be greatly hampercd in its
work by the absence OF landed possess
sions. When tho mission had been
founded one of the trio who had met
Rhodes set out on the hazardous ffteen-
hundred-mile journey by trail to Cape
town, in order to lay the situation before
Rhodes. When that master mind heard
tho story he forthwith gave the mission,
not q thousand acres of land at the new
site, but twenty-four times that amount
of land.
Parceling Out the Heathen World.
1t was about thirty years ago that the
Spirit OF comfy now so strong In tho
foreign mission field. first began to mako
itself felt 1t has increased nightly eince
then, until today IL is thoroughly under
stood throughout the foreign missionary
circles OF the world that a field which is
advantageously occupied by any organi-
zation rightfully belongs to It exclusively.
and must not be entered by a rival So
cicty.
Indeed. there is moro than this tacIt
understanding Every year the executive
heads Of certain evangelical missionary
societies meet In New York and amicably
discuss into which field each society shall
enter, the boundaries OF the fields being
laid down with a care that Is painstaklng
When the Philippines. after their con
quest by this country. became field for