. The story of Africa and its explorers. average, as many as 700 nativeAfricans are under tuition, and of more than2,000 native graduates of Lovedale, of whomthe after history could be traced, the majorityproved highly creditable to the generously supported by the FreeChurch of Scotland, Lovedale, like Blyths-wood, its offshoot, 120 miles distant in the * Moffat, Missionary LabouiSi and Scenes in SouthAfrica. (Ed. 1846.) This is still an admirable book. Transkei, is unsectarian. But so highly appre-ciated is the institution that about £2,000per annum is paid by the natives f
. The story of Africa and its explorers. average, as many as 700 nativeAfricans are under tuition, and of more than2,000 native graduates of Lovedale, of whomthe after history could be traced, the majorityproved highly creditable to the generously supported by the FreeChurch of Scotland, Lovedale, like Blyths-wood, its offshoot, 120 miles distant in the * Moffat, Missionary LabouiSi and Scenes in SouthAfrica. (Ed. 1846.) This is still an admirable book. Transkei, is unsectarian. But so highly appre-ciated is the institution that about £2,000per annum is paid by the natives for theprivilege of being educated there. The name of the Rev. Dr. James Stewart(p. 131) is now almost as familiarly associatedwith this establishment as those of the menalready quoted. We shall, however, haveagain to meet him in another part of Africa,more as a pioneer than he could become inso comparatively well-known a part of theworld as South Africa. The French Evangelical mission has estab-lished several stations amono- the Basuto. REV. THOMAS J. COMBER. (From a Photogra^ih hy Debenham iD Govld. BournemoutJi.) tribes. The Rhenish Society, the Berlin So-ciety, the Hermansburger Society, the DutchReformed Church, the Norwegian Society,the Finnish Lutheran Society—in addition tosome Roman Catholic stations—all have mis-sions dotting the coimtry from Damaralandon the west to Zululand on the east: and in1837 the Church of England sent a missioninto Zululand under the Rev. F. Owen, whow^as, however, compelled to leave after a yearor twos struggle with the cruelty and bar-barism of Dingaan, one of the predecessors ofCetywayo. His work was never resumed, butunder the auspices of the Society for thePropagation of the- Gospel there are stillflourishing missions in Kaffraria, Natal, the 128 THE STOBY OF AFRICA. Orange Free State, Mashonaland, and, in short,all over southern Africa, the religious in-fluences of which are now controlled by tenbishops. The South African missionarie
Size: 1391px × 1795px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookpublisherlondo, bookyear1892
