The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency . d to have attained fullgrowth until the members are preparedto take an active part by voluntary serviceand generous gifts in the evangelisationof the heathen around them. That ourAfrican brethren are not behind in suchworks is evident from the following figures are for the year 1910. Money Money Extra Gifts sent from raised to Foreign England. Locally. Missions. £ £ £ The Transvaal District ... 7,553 39,130 6,446 The Rhodesia District ... 3,655 2,187 177 The Sierra Leone District 2,238 7,585 1,
The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency . d to have attained fullgrowth until the members are preparedto take an active part by voluntary serviceand generous gifts in the evangelisationof the heathen around them. That ourAfrican brethren are not behind in suchworks is evident from the following figures are for the year 1910. Money Money Extra Gifts sent from raised to Foreign England. Locally. Missions. £ £ £ The Transvaal District ... 7,553 39,130 6,446 The Rhodesia District ... 3,655 2,187 177 The Sierra Leone District 2,238 7,585 1,540 The Gambia Section 314 1,906 332 The Gold Coast 3,807 19,300 The Lagos District 3,809 4,897 1,040 Total money spent in £75,005* £14,067 Africa by the Committeeduring 1910. £21,376 V Total raised in Africa during 1910 £89,072 * Under this head Government grants in aid of schools,etc., are included, and also contributions received fromEuropeans, which in the Transvaal are considerable. InWest Africa the money is almost entirely the result ofnative Methods of Work in Africa 285 It is startling to find that during oneyear our African Districts raised the largesum of £89,000, and the wonder growswhen we remember that this is theordinary annual amount, and not thereturns of a year of special effort. With the growing consciousness of ability Preparation forto maintain themselves, there comes the mJnt00^™perfectly natural and healthy desire togovern themselves, and, where a churchis able .to bear the responsibility,such right of self-government as Methodistpolicy allows is gradually introduced. Itis given to the Christian community, calledout of darkness, to have life in itself] andprovision must be made for the manifes-tation and expression of it. The cardinalblunder made by the Church of Rome inits dealings with England—that of at-tempting unduly to retain control of thereligious life of the country by means of aforeign priesthood, inste
Size: 1300px × 1923px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookpublisherlondonwesleyanmeth
