Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . taller better fitted to cope with the climate, but heis better fitted for the great physical exercise which he has to undergo. I havemarched some ten thousand miles in Africa, and have never felt the want of any-thing like a stimulant. Indeed, I feel sure that if I had not been a teetotaller itwould have been impossible to undergo the fatigue involved in some of the march-ing. The Bishop is said to have walked about a thousand miles in a recent pastoralvisit. 1 The Church Missionary Intelligencer, July, 1893, p.
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . taller better fitted to cope with the climate, but heis better fitted for the great physical exercise which he has to undergo. I havemarched some ten thousand miles in Africa, and have never felt the want of any-thing like a stimulant. Indeed, I feel sure that if I had not been a teetotaller itwould have been impossible to undergo the fatigue involved in some of the march-ing. The Bishop is said to have walked about a thousand miles in a recent pastoralvisit. 1 The Church Missionary Intelligencer, July, 1893, p. 506. 2 Report of Church Missionary Society, 1897, p. 136. 3 The Statesmans Year-Book, 1897, p. 195. * The Christian, June 17, 1897. This statement concerning the Niger CoastProtectorate should not be understood as referring to the Royal Niger CompanysTerritories, where the importation of liquor is prohibited above the seventh degreeof north latitude—thanks, we believe, largely to the personal influence of Sir GeorgeT. Goldie. Report of Church Missionary Society, 1897, p. A tj) 2 < h^ % u-H & to 2 2 t^ U tjD [« pa O « rr ad < ^^•a a c; H<; •a 7i S .s H THE SOCIAL RESULTS OF MISSIONS 111 portant African topic of the day. ^ It is interesting to note in thisconnection that throughout all the missions of the West Coast of Africathere is a vigilant and vigorous temperance movement to arrest theravages of this dread enemy of the African. In the Congo Valley, themissions of the American Baptist Missionary Union have institutedsevere prohibitive measures upon the subject of intemperance, requir-ing total abstinence of all church-members. We fought for temper-ance, says the Rev. Henry Richards, in a recent report of his station,Banza Manteka, and now we have a strictly temperance church.^If we pass to Egypt and the northern coast of the Continent, we findmissions to be the same saving power, and almost the only thorough-going and consistent influence in favor of ab
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