. The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency. Cape Townwas the base for all South African missions,and the stations were the outposts. Now-a-days, the railway makes Bulawayo orSalisbury a more convenient base thanCape Town for an advance into Call from Take our Gold Coast District. The two West Africa great rivers of the colony are almost use-less as means of access to the interior, andour stations lie on, or near to, the has always been a lonely outpost,difficult to reach. But the new railwayhas changed all this, and it
. The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency. Cape Townwas the base for all South African missions,and the stations were the outposts. Now-a-days, the railway makes Bulawayo orSalisbury a more convenient base thanCape Town for an advance into Call from Take our Gold Coast District. The two West Africa great rivers of the colony are almost use-less as means of access to the interior, andour stations lie on, or near to, the has always been a lonely outpost,difficult to reach. But the new railwayhas changed all this, and it is now easierto reach the Ashanti capital than someplaces within twenty miles of the completely changes the situation forus. Kumassi becomes an excellent basefrom which we can evangelise the northernterritories of the colony. Already we haveoutposts reaching as far as Kintampo, somefour hundred miles from the sea, and plansfor an important forward movement areunder consideration. Land on which tobuild a mission station has already beengiven to us in Tamale, a town in the far. The Gall of the Hour 357 interior. There seems little doubt thatGod is calling us to advance in this great region (a British Protectorate)is quite virgin soil, and in view of theMuslim advance it is imperative that weshould go forward immediately. For theevangelisation of these vast NorthernTerritories, the and the BasleMission are solely responsible; no otherSociety is likely to undertake the work ifwe fail in our duty. In these regions thestory of Uganda might well be repeated,and the floods of Muslim invasion that another Stanley might rouseBritish Methodism with the cry, Gentle-men, here is your 02:)2^07-tunity. Embraceit I If our churches have but ears tohear, a Greater than Stanley summonsus to go forward in His Name. Nor can we doubt that God is also A Call fromcaUing the to an important ^^^^advance in South-Central Africa. Fiveyears ago, in
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