. The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency . fetichism arealso helping to prevent the appallingwaste of human life. It must not besupposed that any of the evils just men-tioned have disappeared from Africa. Theystill exist to a greater or lesser extent;but by constant punitive expeditions, andthe increasing effectiveness of administra-tion, they are receding further and furtherinto the vast interior, and in due time willbecome extinct. On the other hand, com-merce, agriculture, education, and varioususages of civilisation, together with dis-tinct
. The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency . fetichism arealso helping to prevent the appallingwaste of human life. It must not besupposed that any of the evils just men-tioned have disappeared from Africa. Theystill exist to a greater or lesser extent;but by constant punitive expeditions, andthe increasing effectiveness of administra-tion, they are receding further and furtherinto the vast interior, and in due time willbecome extinct. On the other hand, com-merce, agriculture, education, and varioususages of civilisation, together with dis-tinctly missionary and philanthropic effort,are working, on the whole, for the upliftingof the African. Large areas have been brought intoclose contact with civilisation and Chris-tianity. Steamers ply on lakes and riversunknown sixty years ago. From thenorth, the railway has crept up the Nile tobeyond Khartoum, and the line from CapeTown is rapidly approaching Tanganyika;in a few years the two railways will Uganda railway has reduced to aboutthree days a iourney that a few years ago. The Opening of the Dark Continent 47 took several months and was accompaniedby serious dangers. So recently as 1900,it took Bishop Tugwell and his little bandof missionaries several months to reachKano, the Manchester of the Sudan ; thiscity can now be reached in a few days bytrain. A careful scrutiny of an up-to-datemap of Africa will reveal numerous shortrailway lines near the coast. Many ofthem are not more than a couple ofhundred miles in length, but as the yearspass they are gradually creeping inland,and their number is increasing. We began our study with Africa un- The Openknown and closed to the world. We have Continentwatched Phcenicians and Portuguese sailround her coasts, and the explorers ofmany nations penetrate the gloom of theinterior. We have seen the Dark Con-tinent opened to all foreign influences,good and evil. We have noted thevarying motives that have drawn men toAfrica—c
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