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life that they had lived for ages they
find themselves unable to stem the
tide against pagan influence-those
who expect that expect too much.
There lis a very high degree of civili-
cation in the European states on that
continent, but little genuine Chris
tionity as the almost perpetual wars
workers on the continent were of
the Roman Catholic faith-the Jesuit
priests being the most numerous. Their
work in Portuguese southeast Afri-
ca and Portuguese East Africa met
with small success due to the grip
Mohammedanism had gotten on the
country. Once Islam gets a hold It
is much like our johnson grass 1t
is hard to root out. The Portuguese
have the distinction of having given
the world the first Negro Catholic
Bishop, during the 10th century. He
was Bishop of the Congo was a MEM
Der of the royal family of the Congo,
he received his education in Lisbon
and Rome. 1t is the boast of the
church Missionary Society of Lon
don to have educated the first Pro-
testnnt Negro Bishop in the person of
Samuel Crowther--he was born an
Egba, slave and came from Logas.
This youth possessed. a master mind
and became a profound scholar He
is spoken OF as being upright and a
powerful man whose grasp of world
conditions was wonderful Among his
valuable literary contributions were
several treaties on philogy of various
African tribes. He was a real factor
in founding British Nigeria and ex-
ploring the Meyer and the Benue. We
note that Portuguese priests labored In
Abyssinia for the greater part of two
centuries, Ibn' made no perceptible
progress in converting the country to
Roman Catholicism-the people claim
ing that they were Christians and ad-
vising the missionaries to go to the
pagan and Mohammedan. II is too in
teresting to learn that Protestant mis-
sionaries met with but little more
encouragement. The work of the Pro-
testant missions dates from the 18th
century. The Wesleyan missionary So
ciety began its work in Sierra Leone
in 1887 at the very beginning of the
colony as an asylum for freed slaves.
1t was the pleasure of the writer to
observe while in that colony, that
some Of the most substantial buildings
in Il .eetown are church and school
buildings of this denomination. The
London Missionary Society was or
ganized i'm 1875: the Edenburg Mis-
sionary Society in 1886; the Glasgo
Society soon after the British: the
church Missionary Society was found
ed in 1899, the strange thing about
the work of this organization was.
chat IL employed German workers
very largely; but the telling results
justify the dnusal departure-those
workers have made some OF the most
permanent contributions to the ex-
plorations and physiology &c the coun-
try The Wesleyan Methodist Mis-
sionary Society was founded in 1913
and devoted its energies to the south
tern confines of the continent with
telling results. the Primitive Me-
thodist Society was organized in 1S43,
and the British Baptist Missionary
Society came into being In 1S44
and has done great work in diff
ferent parts of the continent. Among
others who have had hand in Afri-
cas- redemption are the Swiss Pro-
testants; the German church. the
French Evangelical Church; The
Dutch Reform church; the British
Presbyterian church; the United Pres
byterian Church; the Norwegian
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