Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . thers, was sent out to SierraLeone by the Church Missionary Society in 1816, and was busy duringthe seven years of his life there in receiving the rescued slaves as theywere landed by cruisers, and bringing them under Christian instruction,by which they were trained for usefulness.^ In 1822 there were twothousand freed slaves in the mission schools, and thousands more werereached by Christian teaching. The Governor of the colony, in com-menting upon the fact, remarked: The hand of Heaven is on Cust, in
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . thers, was sent out to SierraLeone by the Church Missionary Society in 1816, and was busy duringthe seven years of his life there in receiving the rescued slaves as theywere landed by cruisers, and bringing them under Christian instruction,by which they were trained for usefulness.^ In 1822 there were twothousand freed slaves in the mission schools, and thousands more werereached by Christian teaching. The Governor of the colony, in com-menting upon the fact, remarked: The hand of Heaven is on Cust, in one of his papers, entitled A Word to those who do notRecognize the Divinely Imposed Duty of Evangelization, refers tomissionary intervention in arresting slave-dealing, and in the course ofhis remarks says: What but strong Christian influence would have 1 Cf. Creegan, Great Missionaries of the Church, pp. 125-140; Pierson, The Miracles of Missions, Second Series, pp. 107-126. 2 Tucker, Under His Banner, p. 188. 5 Pierson, Seven Years in Sierra Leone (Life of W. A. B. Johnson).. Mission Workshop, Christiansborg, Gold Coast, for Freed Slaves, Kumassi. A Home for Slaves on the Gold CoAsr,(na. M. S.) THE SOCIAL RESULTS OF MISSIONS 303 done it, and who but missionaries would have suppHed the factsabout slave-dealing and been foremost in the conflict? The Christianmission is the complement of the Slavery-Abolition Society: the twomake one power. Sierra Leone and Frere Town are proofs It was Sir T. Fowell Buxtons appeal in his book on The Slave-Trade and its Remedy which incited the United Presbyterian mis-sionaries in Jamaica, soon after the abolition of , . Missionaries of all slavery in the West Indies, to establish a mission societies hastening thein Old Calabar, in the eastern section of what is hour of fuii deliverance /-. T-. nil T-. in West Africa. now the Niger Coast Protectorate. The M. Waddell, their first missionary, went out in response to an
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