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Missionary Life in South East Africa. Decorated Hots in a Native Kraal Missionary Life in South East Africa. Decorated Hots in a Native KraaL This is an exterior view of one of the “ homes” of the three million that populate the Portuguese East Africa Province, where some of our Methodist missions are located. These huts, photographed by Superintendent Richards, are beautifully decorated with particolored skins, which in the deep tropical foliage present a pleasing picture. The doorway is the only opening to the uninviting interior. The fire burns in the center of the one room, and over it, resting on three stones, is an earthen pot in which corn or farina is cooking— little variation in diet, except in locust or caterpillar season. On a wicker sticlf above the fire grain is stored and pottery dried. A round the hut hang hatchet, spear, bow and arrows, hoe, water bottles and cooking pots— that is all, except the mats on which all sleep with their toes toward the fire. ILLUSTRATED CHRISTIAN WORLD. January, 1897. GENERAL MISSIONARY COfiniTTEE AND OUR WORK IN AFRICA. recommends that the appropriation for the work as it is shall be $300 less, and fixed at $5,000. The A Happy Adjustment of the Vast Interests Involved, and an Open Door for Still Larger Successes. committee also recommends that $3,000 be appro­ BY BISHOP J. C. HARTZELL, D.D., LL.D. priated for reinforcements to fill vacancies. 2. The ten stations and five substations among HE General Missionary Committee of the Report on Africa. the heathen in Liberia, heretofore administered Methodist Episcopal Church is composed of by Bishop William Taylor, include eleven mission­ T the twenty-one Bishops, representing the Bishop Foss presented the report of the special aries, with several native preachers and teachers. world-wide Church, the three corresponding sec­ Committee on Africa, as follows: They have 446 members converted from heathen­ retaries and two treasurers, and fourteen mem­ Your committee received from Bishop Hartzell ism, have in their homes 588 children gathered bers of the Board of Managers, representing the a carefully prepared statement, setting forth in from heathen families, and property estimated at Missionary Society, and fourteen representatives detail the stations and present condition of our $14,600. T h e lo cal au th orities g iv e 200 a cre s of from different sections of the United States— fifty- mission work in Africa. The statement included land to each station. At all the stations vegetable four in all. I doubt if a better qualified body of men both the work which has been administered by and fruit gardens are cultivated, and at several meets anywhere on earth to consider the special the Missionary Society and also Bishop William the coffee trees range in number from 200 to 1,000, interest intrusted to its care. The Bishops, through Taylor’s Missions. His information had been gath­ some of which are commencing to bear. one of their number, have visited every mission ered from Bishop Taylor, returned missionaries, The yearly expense of maintaining these mis­ at home and abroad, over and over again. The and replies to his inquiries from presiding elders sions under Bishop William Taylor has been, as officers and managers of the Society bring informa­ and superintendents, as well as from conversa­ nearly as can be ascertained, about$8,oco. We do tion in detail concerning every mission, and also tions with others who were not connected with not see our way clear to recommend for these their mature judgment, based on experience, on our w ork. missions as much as they really need, but suggest questions of §27,000 as administra- the lowest . tion ; and p o s s i b l e ; t h e o t h er a m o u n t represent a- with which t i v e s a r e they can be picked men, h e ld a n d fresh from t h e w o r k the body of maintained the Church, a t all. clerical and 3- T h e la y. C on go M is­ S ix d a y s , sion Confer­ with two or e n c e , a c ­ t h r e e s e s ­ cording to sions each th e D is c i­ d a y , w e r e p lin e , in ­ given to the cludes the careful w h o le con­ study of the t i n e n t o f whole field. A f r i c a P u b 1 i c south of the meetings at e q u a tor, night were and Bishop o f a h i g h H a r tze ll order both w i l l m e e t as to addres­ the Confer­ ses and pop­ ence for or­ ular enthu­ ganization siasm.- Chi M ay 5, 1897. the Sabbath Bishop m an y thou­ Taylor has sands of peo­ heretofore ple listened m et the p re­ to mission­ siding eld- ary sermons e r s a n d and addres­ members of ses in the the different churches of districts, Detroit and but it is ab­ v i ci n ity . solutely es­ T h e a - sential to m oun ts ap­ th e u n i t y propriated and success f o r 1 8 9 7 of the work were as fol­ t h a t t h e lo w s : Conference Foreign shall be or­ M i s ­ ganized at sions... £ 586,800 Hissons once. T h e in the work of the United States. 432,653 M i s s i o 11 Conference Total.f T,01Q^Q3 consists of A s B ish cp threegroups i 11 i a m FAREW ELL OF TH E BISHOPS. (From Story o f M y L ife . By permission.) of stations, T a y l o r ’s a n d a ll of successor it became my duty to bring before the We present a brief summary: them have been administered by Bishop William Committee a statement concerning the Bishop’s 1. The Liberia Annual Conference includes the Taylor as self-supporting missions. self-supporting mission work in Africa. The ques­ west coast of Africa north of the equator, and is The Congo District includes six stations on the tion of accepting and recognizing this work as a under the administration of the Missionary Soci­ Lower Congo, three of which are now occupied by part of the foreign missionary work of the Church ety, except ten stations, with five substations, eight missionaries; ‘ wenty-six children are in the was referred to this Committee by the last General among the heathen, established, and up to the homes of missionaries; and the property, includ­ Conference. last General Conference, administered by Bishop ing the steamer Anne Taylor, and other assets, The work in Africa was referred to a special William Taylor on his self-supporting plan. valu ed at $5,000, is estim ated at $12,900. committee, and the report of that committee was The Liberia Conference, exclusive of these sta­ The East Africa District consists of four stations presented, and, after a full and appreciative dis­ tions, has 4,500 members and probationers, 77 Sun­ on Inhambane Bay, on the southeastern coast, and cussion, was unanimously adopted. Bishop Wil­ day schools, with 2,537 scholars, 32 churches valued extends inland toward Johannesburg. There are liam Taylor and his work were referred to with at $39,684.25. T h e w ork h as su ffered v e r y g re a tly five missionaries and several native preachers and words of genuine appreciation. Differences of during the past few years by the death of several teachers, 275 children in the homes of missionaries, opinion as to some of his methods were forgotten of its leading men, and the failure, either by ap­ and property valued at $3,000. This work, with in the presence of the fact that that man of apos­ pointment or by growth of men on the ground, its Superintendent, Rev. E. H. Richards, was ac­ tolic mold and evangelistic power had stepped to supply the deficiency. cepted by Bishop William Taylor four years ago. aside from the burdens of official administration, There are also, three seminaries, namely, Monro­ Dr. Richards had already spent twelve years in and had placed with his blessing in the hands of via, Cape Palmas, and White Plains. These insti­ Africa, had mastered the Tonga language and his succesor his work in Africa. The committee tutions have also suffered for years from lack of translated into it the entire New Testament, and passed a resolution expressive of its high apprecia­ competent teachers. ' is now commencing the translation of the Old Tes­ tion of him and what he had done, and also of We feel that there must be reinforcements sent tament. He has also translated a series of hymns those who had cooperated with him. Bishop Wil­ to this field. and the Catechism. There are large tracts of land liam Taylor will live in history as one of the Lord’s T h e appropriation la st y e a r w as $5,300, and the in connection with some of the stations where noble leaders among men. Committee on Africa at New York recommends Christian communities can be established in the The report of the committee was as follows : the same for 18Q7. Your committee, however, near future. January, 1897.
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