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Title: Missionary, Visitor, The (1907)
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Brethren's General Missionary and Tract Committee
Subjects: Church of the Brethren Priodicals Church of the Brethren- Missions
Publisher: Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House
Contributing Library: Bridgewater College, Alexander Mack Memorial Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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strong subjectshandled by able speakers. The Unit of Missions and the Mis-sionary Unit in the Missionary Out-look is a splendid survey of the scopeof missions first in the unity of purpose,of operation, and of field, and secondlythat the unit of mission is Jesus Christ,the unit of salvation is the individual,and the unit or responsibility for world-wide salvation rests with the individualmember. •J* In 1885 Bishop Hannington was killedby order of an African ruler namedMwagna, king of Uganda. Luba, an oldBusoga chief, was asked to perform thedeed. Twenty-one years after, BishopHanningtons son was permitted to bap-tize Lubas son, now a High School stu-dent. How Christ can conquer throughsuffering. If thou art the lily and the rose ofChrist, know that thy dwelling place isamong the thorns. Only take care lest bythy impatience, by thy rash judgment,and thy secret pride, thou dost not thy-self become a thorn.—Luther. The prospects are as bright as thfpromises of God.—Adoniram Judson.
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THE SAD STORY OF LIQUORIN AFRICA. The above illustration is loaned by theMissionary Witness and forcibly tellsthe story of the drink curse in West Af-rica. The camera tells no falsehood.Here is a ship at Lagos unloading hercargo of vile stuff, to sell to the natives.Each case contains a dozen quart bot-tles. There are five hundred cases ineach pile, making a total of 30,000 casesalready on the wharf. This is only apart of one ships cargo for one port.Vessels will call every week, and thusthe Devil carries on his wretched workwith persistency which far outstrips thezeal of all Christendom. Does the Af-rican like liquor? Well, his depravednature takes to it just as readily as doeshuman nature in more civilized coun-tries. Drunkenness and its attendingvices are worse if they can be, among the half-civilized than among the morecivilized, and anyone knows the hor-rors of drunkenness in free America.Why cannot the nations of earth forma compact prohibiting the importationof all liquors into

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