. The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency . eavind were appointed,with Potchefstroom as were conducted in a schoolroomlent by the Boer Government. Two yearslater Pretoria appeared on the Minutes ofConference. Then came the long troublesconnected with British annexation andthe war of 1880. At that time we hadonly seventy-eight members at two centresfor European work (Potchefstroom andPretoria). We had also native churchesamong the BaKwena and the the war a new era began with thefirst Synod of the Transvaal Dis
. The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency . eavind were appointed,with Potchefstroom as were conducted in a schoolroomlent by the Boer Government. Two yearslater Pretoria appeared on the Minutes ofConference. Then came the long troublesconnected with British annexation andthe war of 1880. At that time we hadonly seventy-eight members at two centresfor European work (Potchefstroom andPretoria). We had also native churchesamong the BaKwena and the the war a new era began with thefirst Synod of the Transvaal District in1882, of which the Pev. Owen Watkins wasChairman. As new missionaries arrivedforward movements were made. Thecountry was still without roads or bridges,and railways were unknown. Yet thesplendid work done in those pioneer daysprepared the way for the great results oflater years. p ^m >^ »-.,.>?•- ..4/- mA M^ ^ --?:- te iiii^ii»4^^^m HP^ IllHlMMMi ?H^i ^M ?r^^ M ^H^k W^^^Bjfflp si ?- i t r Jrtl^J P^*^S9i ?f^S H 1 t ~ - ^ .,^*.. ? NATIVES AT HOME IN THE Photo by NATIVES AS WE MEET THEM AT THE MINES. Neville Edwards. p. 135. Our South Africa Mission Field 135 The discovery of gold on the Rand in J/q^iIj^^1886 immediately drew to the countrylarge numbers of men of many races intenton but one thing—gold. We have alreadyseen how avarice brings out the worst andmost selfish qualities of human town of Johannesburg sprang intoexistence where two or three years before the Witwatersrand was wild, wind-swept veld. But though many of theminers were utterly godless, in others thefire of true piety burned unquenched, andMethodism soon recognised her duty tothe new-comers. The Rev. F. J. Briscoe Among thebecame minister of our first Band Church, Minersliving for six months in a wagon untilother accommodation could be this way European work became animportant feature of our Transvaal the native work was not , the ope
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