Seeing our missions across the seas . rine zone the journeymust be made by relays across the Atlantic. The size of Africa is a surprise to many. There isroom on the Dark Continent for the whole of the UnitedStates, Europe, China, and India. Activities in Freetown. Our mission is located in SierraLeone, a British possession on the West coast about eightdegrees north of the equator, where the weather is alwayshot. Freetown is the harbor city and the capital of SierraLeone with a population of 45,000. There are at least fortydistinct tribes found in the city and the diversity oflanguages and dial
Seeing our missions across the seas . rine zone the journeymust be made by relays across the Atlantic. The size of Africa is a surprise to many. There isroom on the Dark Continent for the whole of the UnitedStates, Europe, China, and India. Activities in Freetown. Our mission is located in SierraLeone, a British possession on the West coast about eightdegrees north of the equator, where the weather is alwayshot. Freetown is the harbor city and the capital of SierraLeone with a population of 45,000. There are at least fortydistinct tribes found in the city and the diversity oflanguages and dialects spoken makes it a difficult missionfield. The headquarters of our mission and the homes ofSuperintendent and Mrs. E. M. Hursh, Professor and E. Weidler, and Rev. and Mrs. D. M. Evans are in thiscity. Albert Academy, in charge of Professor D. E. Weidler,is also located here. The curriculum of this school equalsthat of a good high-school course. Emphasis is laid onreligious training. The industrial and manual training de-ll. partment of the Academy, under the direction of Rev. D. , aims to teach the students the dignity of is taught, also wood work and furniture making,which are creating great interest. There is also a printingdepartment in which our monthly religious paper, TheSierra Leone Outlook is printed, which is the only Christianpaper published in Sierra Leone. Hymn books, catechisms,and thousands of pages of religious reading matter arebeing disseminated. Professor A. T. Sumner, one of theteocliers in the Albert Academy, zvlio is a product of ourozvn schools, is the autJwr of a new book in the Mcndilanguage zvhich has recently been published by the EnglishGovernment. This book is the first of its kind ever pro-duced by a native of Sierra Leone. The science departmentof the Academy, which is urgently in need of a specialist,is doing much to destroy the old animistic ideas of thenative men. The ordinary phenomena of nature are beingexpl
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