Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . at prev-alent.^ Leper work is reported by the Hermannsburg Mission atMosetla, in the Transvaal. The government asylum at Emjanyana,Kaffraria, is visited by the Rev. S. J. Wallis, a missionary of the Scot-tish Episcopal Church, who gives some encouraging accounts of hisefforts to instruct the inmates. In the Island of Zanzibar there is aleper colony near Zanzibar City, where Dr. A. H. Spurrier, a resident 1 Annual Report of the Church Missionary Society, 1898, p. 394; TheChurch Missionary Intelligencer, August, 1
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . at prev-alent.^ Leper work is reported by the Hermannsburg Mission atMosetla, in the Transvaal. The government asylum at Emjanyana,Kaffraria, is visited by the Rev. S. J. Wallis, a missionary of the Scot-tish Episcopal Church, who gives some encouraging accounts of hisefforts to instruct the inmates. In the Island of Zanzibar there is aleper colony near Zanzibar City, where Dr. A. H. Spurrier, a resident 1 Annual Report of the Church Missionary Society, 1898, p. 394; TheChurch Missionary Intelligencer, August, 1898, p. 583. 2 The Missionary Review of the IVorlJ, September, 1898, p. 671. 3 The Christian Express, May, 1895, p. 66; The Church Missionary Intelligencer,September, 1895, p. 698. * The Mission Eield {S. P. G.), October, 1897, pp. 375-379. 5 Bliss, Encyclopedia of Missions, vol. i., pp. 544, 545; La Trobe, Workamong Lepers by the Moravian Church, p. 11; Noble, The Redemption ofAfrica, pp. 449-451. 6 Periodical Accounts Relating to the Moravian Missions, December, 1897, p. THE SOCIAL RESULTS OF MISSIONS 445 English layman, renders voluntary service as a superintendent and ad-viser. The following statement indicates the peril to which these poorcreatures are subjected if left without some guardianship on the partof missionaries or civil authorities. Only think, writes a missionarylady from Zanzibar, Dr. OSullivan was taking care of a leper atPemba, but had to come to Zanzibar, and when he returned, to hisgreat regret he found that the people had buried the poor man ahve,because he was of no use. It is time the lepers had some friends. ^ In Madagascar the London Missionary Society, through two of itsmissionaries, the Rev. A, S. Huckett and his wife, secured in 1892funds for the establishment of a leper is located upon a hill named Ilena, about four villages of Hope inmiles from Fianarantsoa, and was opened in Feb- Madagascar, ruary, 1895. It is called by a nam
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