. The redemption of Africa; a story of civilization, with maps, statistical tables and select bibliography of the literature of African missions . e affairs in Cape Col-ony ; and the editors of The Cape Times, The Port Eliza-beth Telegraph and The South African Methodist—is thatthe moral and the spiritual life of the native Christiansare sterling f. Greater love, said Jesus, hath no man than this: thathe lay down his life for the life of his friend. Perhapsthe crucial test for the genuineness of the AfricansChristianity is his endurance of persecution, his readi-ness for martyrdom. The Berber
. The redemption of Africa; a story of civilization, with maps, statistical tables and select bibliography of the literature of African missions . e affairs in Cape Col-ony ; and the editors of The Cape Times, The Port Eliza-beth Telegraph and The South African Methodist—is thatthe moral and the spiritual life of the native Christiansare sterling f. Greater love, said Jesus, hath no man than this: thathe lay down his life for the life of his friend. Perhapsthe crucial test for the genuineness of the AfricansChristianity is his endurance of persecution, his readi-ness for martyrdom. The Berber in Algeria, the Koptin Egypt, the Hova in Madagascar, the Nyasa, Ugandaand Zanzibari Christians, the Zulu, the Kafir, the Khoi- * David Susi, one of Livingstones men, did not become a Christian till morethan twenty years after he had first met with Livingstone. See The Story ofAfrica, v. 2, pp. 265 and 280. tThe evidence is far too voluminous for citation, but is easily accessible inLiggins Great Value of Missions, published by Baker and Taylor of New YorkCity, and in Youngs Success of Missions, published by Hodder and Stoughtonoi TWO NATIVE CHRISTIANS LOOKING BACKWARD — AND FORWARD 753 Khoin and the Chwana, the Kongo converts, the Gabu-nese, the Calabarans, the Niger proselytes and the Ne-gro communicants of Guinea have furnished followersof the Christ. They bore His cross in lives of sufferingor died in loyalty to their divine Friend. Madagascar,Uganda and Yariba stand among the historic names thatleap to the lip when Christianity is asked whether theAfrican, at the risk of death, will cleave to the Stanley we say: What can a man wish better fora proof that Christianity is possible in Africa? .I take this powerful body of native Christians in theheart of Africa, who prefer exile for the sake of theirfaith to serving a monarch indifferent or hostile to theirfaith, as more substantial evidence of the work of Mac-kay than any number of imposing structure
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