1900
Statistics declare that in the entire kingdom of Spain there are only 3,230 children in attendance upon Sunday Schools.
Fifty years ago there were not fifty medical missionaries in the world. Fifteen years since there were but 250; while today there are over 600.
China, the greatest mission field in all the world, with at least 386,000,000 people, has a total of only 2,500 Protestant missionaries. Nearly one-fifth of these are ordained ministers.
The Zulu Bible, published by the American Bible Society, is an influential factor in South African affairs. "Whatever happens in the Transvaal," says the secretary, "the Bible will not cease to do its silent work."
It has been proposed by many who have been touched by the manner in which the six children of the Rev. D. H. and Mrs. Lee met their death in the recent disaster at Darjeeling, to perpetuate their memory by erecting a permanent institution, known as "The Dennett Training School and Home for Bengali Girls" in Calcutta. Mrs. F. L. Sperry, of Mt. Lake Park, Md., will give further information.
A Christian Endeavor meeting is held every Monday evening among the five troops of the United States cavalry stationed at Puerto Principe, Cuba. Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, has a Christian Endeavor Society, organized in December, 1899. One active member is a native, a clerk, that has learned to speak English well. There are four Puerto Rican associate members.
—The Ram's Horn, March 17, 1900, p. 18.
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Cooperation Among Societies
1900
The Baptist Standard says: "A straw indicating the growth of co-operative relations among our denominational societies is the arrangement made by the Missionary Union with the National Baptist convention and the Lott Carey convention, both composed of Negro Baptists, largely in the South, the latter working more especially in the eastern portions of the South. By this arrangement the union offers to hold itself in the most fraternal relation with respect to work in Africa."
—The Ram's Horn, Nov. 17, 1900, p. 22.
The Baptist Standard says: "A straw indicating the growth of co-operative relations among our denominational societies is the arrangement made by the Missionary Union with the National Baptist convention and the Lott Carey convention, both composed of Negro Baptists, largely in the South, the latter working more especially in the eastern portions of the South. By this arrangement the union offers to hold itself in the most fraternal relation with respect to work in Africa."
—The Ram's Horn, Nov. 17, 1900, p. 22.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Model African King
1910
The Christian village of Hombo in Africa is a proof of the power of the gospel. At daybreak every morning the horn is blown and the people assemble at the king's house to hear the word of God read, and to praise and pray. Witchcraft and superstition have fallen under the power of the gospel, and the heathens are taking knowledge of it. The native church at Loanda contributes $17 a month for the support of native workers on a native station in the interior of Angola.
The Christian village of Hombo in Africa is a proof of the power of the gospel. At daybreak every morning the horn is blown and the people assemble at the king's house to hear the word of God read, and to praise and pray. Witchcraft and superstition have fallen under the power of the gospel, and the heathens are taking knowledge of it. The native church at Loanda contributes $17 a month for the support of native workers on a native station in the interior of Angola.
Monday, May 21, 2007
Black Art in West Africa
1914
Natives Freely Acknowledge Guilt, Even When They Know It Means Their Death
Early in 1911 a deputation from one of the larger towns of West Africa brought two prisoners, father and son, before the commissioner at Oban. They were accused of having, in crocodile form, killed two women while the latter were crossing the river.
As they refused to swear their innocence on the dominant ju-ju of the town, they were brought before the "white man," who naturally decided that there was no case against them. The deputation, however, had not finished with the matter. On returning home another ju-ju was invoked, with the result that the son confessed that both he and his father were guilty, and that they had killed and eaten seven other men and women.
Strangely enough, people accused of this uncanny power nearly always acknowledge their guilt, even when fully aware that such confession will probably cost them their lives. Awa Ita, an old woman of Oban, was suspected of being "a snake soul," and of sending out her familiar every night to lick a wound on her husband's ankle while he slept, and so prevent it from healing. The chiefs of the Egbo society summoned her before their dreaded tribunal, and she was condemned to death.
Natives Freely Acknowledge Guilt, Even When They Know It Means Their Death
Early in 1911 a deputation from one of the larger towns of West Africa brought two prisoners, father and son, before the commissioner at Oban. They were accused of having, in crocodile form, killed two women while the latter were crossing the river.
As they refused to swear their innocence on the dominant ju-ju of the town, they were brought before the "white man," who naturally decided that there was no case against them. The deputation, however, had not finished with the matter. On returning home another ju-ju was invoked, with the result that the son confessed that both he and his father were guilty, and that they had killed and eaten seven other men and women.
Strangely enough, people accused of this uncanny power nearly always acknowledge their guilt, even when fully aware that such confession will probably cost them their lives. Awa Ita, an old woman of Oban, was suspected of being "a snake soul," and of sending out her familiar every night to lick a wound on her husband's ankle while he slept, and so prevent it from healing. The chiefs of the Egbo society summoned her before their dreaded tribunal, and she was condemned to death.
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