. The redemption of Africa; a story of civilization, with maps, statistical tables and select bibliography of the literature of African missions . uth Africa. The Frank inherited the past,and worked where civilizations had waxed and waned;the Scot held the future in fee, and, like another Osirisof ancient African myth, sowed the seeds of culture andreligion in waste and wilderness. The French subjectcrossed a narrow sea to a district within a few days ofFrance and Rome, and resided in territory under thecontrol of his government; the British citizen went tolands antipodal to his native clime,
. The redemption of Africa; a story of civilization, with maps, statistical tables and select bibliography of the literature of African missions . uth Africa. The Frank inherited the past,and worked where civilizations had waxed and waned;the Scot held the future in fee, and, like another Osirisof ancient African myth, sowed the seeds of culture andreligion in waste and wilderness. The French subjectcrossed a narrow sea to a district within a few days ofFrance and Rome, and resided in territory under thecontrol of his government; the British citizen went tolands antipodal to his native clime, and dwelt in regionsfar beyond the shelter of the flag. Moffat reachedAfrica in the young dawn of Protestant missions, Lavig-erie at the darkest hour before the new renaissance ofRoman missions; but Moffat was pioneer and creator,Lavigerie entered into other mens labors and built ontheir foundations. These careers overlapped, Lavigeriearriving in 1867, Moffat departing in 1870; but theScotchman was a missionary eight years ere Lavigeriewas born and for half a century before the archbishopsettled in Algeria, whereas the Frenchman served as a. CARDINAL LAVIGERIE Prince of the Roman Church TWO TYPES OF THE APOSTOLATE 675 missioner only twenty-five years. Moffat through thir-teen seasons of retirement from active service remaineda missionary; Lavigerie, though dying at the prematureage of sixty^seven (1892), had nearly half a century ofactive life, and into it he put an amount of achievementthat vindicates Tennysons fifty years of Europe as betterthan a cycle of Cathay. The Protestant toiled in Africaduring its sixty years of preparation; the Roman duringthe quarter^century of consummation. Moffat, though aloyal lover of the fatherland, never lifted a finger tobring the Chwana country into a sphere of British interest;Lavigerie was so passionate a patriot that he employedevery existent opportunity, and invented opportunities,for the aggrandizement of France. His great failing washi
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