Arizona republican., 1908-03-29
pastors at these respective places.

, land. Oregon, superintendent of home
 missions in the west. The report on
 foreign missions was read by Rev.
 Draper and discussed by Rev. Thomas
 Moody of the American Baptist Mis-
 sionary Society. who was stationed in
 the Congo district in Central Africa during the period from 1890 to 190S
 Rev. Moody's address in part was as I follows: In the opening up of Cen tral Equitorial Africa, Livingston went out in 1920 under the auspices of the | Royal Geographical Society for the
 purpose of opening up the country and | putting down the slave trade. After
 his death in 1873, Henry Stanley was sent out by the New York Herald and
 the Daily Telegraph of London, to fin
 ish the work. for which Livingston had given his 'Afe. This occurred in 1874.
 In 1875 the year following he met King
 Metesa on Victoria Nyanza, who be-
 came friendly to Stanley and finally
 asked him for missionaries. In 1876
 the Church Missionary Society of the Church of England sent out mission
 aries to Uganda, where there are now thousands of Christian churches and
 schools. and a Christian king on the throne of King Metesa by the name of King David. Stanley then left Uganda
 and went to Nejangwe on the Congo, and penetrated to the fartherest place 10 which any white man had ever been. Then descended the river to Stanley Falls. fighting the cannibals he found there for hundreds of miles in the Falls district. coming out into open water and floating westward for one thousand miles to Stanley Pool, made a trip of two hundred and sixty miles to Cataract Region to Matadi. From there to Bona, and from this place to Banana. A party of v arrived at the mouth of the Congo 999 days from the time they left Zanzabar. It was at this time that European America re- ceived the word that Stanley had ar rived at the western post of Africa. It was then that the missionary societies were organized. Dr. Guinness with his | friends started what was known as the | Livingston Inland Mission, which mis- | sion was handed over to the American ! Baptist Missionary Union at national | meeting held in Detroit. Michigan. The i English Baptist sent two of their men, | Messrs. Grenfell and Conber to these | fields. They have planted a chain of | stations from Stanley Falls to the | coast. a distance of 1850 miles"
 Mr. Moody's field of labor is at | Lukunga. and he has been there since ! 1890. The station covers 1900 square | miles. with 400 Christians and 30 out stations. These are visited by Rev. | Moody three times each year. Rev. Moody thus illustrates when he com { menced work in a new station. The first time he enters a heather town, everybody runs away. As soon as some of the more courageous begin to re- turn he begins to tell them who he is and what he is there for and also that there are three kinds of white people in the country. Those of the govern ment who are there to rule and collect taxes. the trades to buy and sell and the missionaries to teach them about God and how to read and write, and to give medicine. After year or two of toll and persuasion. they are gener- ally ready to accept the teacher In one instance, after several teachers had died on the north bank of the Congo. said Mir. Moody. "I persuaded the chief to give me some boys to go
 
 until they could read short stories and learn some verses of scrip ture. After which they became home sick and ran away to their friends. The next time I went over I persuaded them to return to school again. and at the end of the iiext six months, they could read anything in the New Testament and knew arithmetic up to long division. Then told two of them. 1 Balutie and Mapeona by name, that they must go back and teach their own people freely. They said alright and , asked for books, states, pencils and A , B c cards and are now teaching and the gospel in F villages and , are reaching about 1900 people. This | is the kind of work the young men do before being sent to the Bible training school.
 "In this and similar ways, the whole {, of Central and Equitorial Africa is be- ing evangelzed. This section of Af- , rica is as large as the United States, 4,000,0O0 and has been open ed up within the present generation and now contains nearly 500 mission aries. 100000 church members and of self-sustaining churches. The American Baptist Missionary Un- ion has 35 missionaries on the Congo. 1925 church members and 1000 pupils in the schools. and 325 native teachers preachers and evangelists, and last year baptized 1126 converts. .
 "The 6Sth psalm and 31st verse. which reads as follows: Princes shall come out of Egypt: Ethiopia shall soon stretch her hands unto God" is doing 1t now. There are. large and unoccu- pied fields. many of them the size of Arizona. containing millions of people who are without a, single missionary They are stretching out their hands md want us to clasp hands with them : and come to a knowledge of our Lord ' md Savior Jesus Christ"
 Rev. Moody says that native con- Ierts are now running steam engines md filling positions as mechanics. rade mechanics. station agents and electrical engineers.
 In the evening the services were onducted by the ladies of the Woman's K Tome and Foreign Missions.
 The following is the program for to- lay:
 SUNDAY FORENOON.
 9: 9:45-Sunday School