. The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency. bia peoples were still the Church of Christ slumberedthe emissaries of Islam were active,and to-day the position is reversed—probably seven-eighths of the tribes areMuslim. Sierra Leone Islam is Said to have been introduced into Sierra Leoue about 1790—about thesame time as Christianity—by certainFulah traders, and since then it has grownsteadily. There must have been consider-able numbers of Muslims in the Colony inthe early decades of last century, for in1839 the Christians petitioned the
. The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency. bia peoples were still the Church of Christ slumberedthe emissaries of Islam were active,and to-day the position is reversed—probably seven-eighths of the tribes areMuslim. Sierra Leone Islam is Said to have been introduced into Sierra Leoue about 1790—about thesame time as Christianity—by certainFulah traders, and since then it has grownsteadily. There must have been consider-able numbers of Muslims in the Colony inthe early decades of last century, for in1839 the Christians petitioned the Govern-ment against their presence, and evendestroyed their mosque in a riot—anoutrage not yet forgotten. In thecensus of 1861 the whole Muhammadanpopulation of the Colony was given as1,774. To-day in Freetown alone, thereare at least 10,000, and they possessseven mosques, and four schools supportedby Government grants. The GovernmentColonial report for 1909 has the follow-ing note : The work of conversion (to Islam) is carried onby means of immigrant traders and Muslim mission-. Photo by A MUHAMMADAN SCHOOL, WEST AFRICA. Rev. W. H. Mautie.
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