Sub sole : or, Under the sun missionary adventures in the great Sahara . e and fear of God, he still had one wishunsatisfied : it was to see his mother, herself a 30 years of waiting and praver, his desire wasgranted. One day, he, now a Bishop, looking as usualwith hope long deferred, among the rescued slaves, dis-cerned in a decrepid old woman, his mother. He was toher a true son and a Father in God. The Bishop told usthis history in a simple unaffected way. It caused a lumpto rise in many a throat. When I explained to him mymission, there came a flash into his eye and a tear roll
Sub sole : or, Under the sun missionary adventures in the great Sahara . e and fear of God, he still had one wishunsatisfied : it was to see his mother, herself a 30 years of waiting and praver, his desire wasgranted. One day, he, now a Bishop, looking as usualwith hope long deferred, among the rescued slaves, dis-cerned in a decrepid old woman, his mother. He was toher a true son and a Father in God. The Bishop told usthis history in a simple unaffected way. It caused a lumpto rise in many a throat. When I explained to him mymission, there came a flash into his eye and a tear rolleddown his cheek. * A myriad blessings will be upon thinehead, my Lord, if thou canst with strong arm, put downthe accursed Arab, that false child of a false prophet,whose greed is gold, whose trade is blood. T asked the Bishop to give me his blessing, No, no,said the venerable man, the less is blessed of the greater ;the redemption of Africa must come from the rule ofChristian Englishmen. The white must govern theblack until the worlds end. The Bishop spoke hopefully. UP THE NIGER. 69 of his work around the Niger, but added, that the tribalwars, stimulated by the slave dealers, not unfrequentlybrought ruin even into his Christian communities. Asthe Bishop descended into his boat, he caught sight of thefever ship : Behold, said he, another of the woes ofAfrica ; that ship came hither, deeply laden with accursedrum ; it is just that she returns, stricken with fever. Now, let me be plainly understood ; I do not agreewith those screaming philanthropists of the femininegender, who are always shrieking out their countrysshame. According to them. England has made Indiaimmoral and Africa drunken. As to India, ask anyreturned Missionary. As to Africa, every schoolboyknows, that long before rum was imported, the nativesgot drunk on palm tree wine. Still, no doubt rum is a great evil, especially such vilestuff as is imported by traders; it is putting a strongertemptation into the way of
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