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Title: Life and light for woman
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Woman's Board of Missions
Subjects: Congregational churches
Publisher: (Boston : Woman's Boards of Missions
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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Rescued Slaves on a British Man-of-War. Slavery at Zanzibar—A Child Victitili Some Victims of the East Coast Slave Trade. From ^^ Christian Missions and Social Tr ogress Vol. I.Copyrig-ht, iSgg, by Flkming H. Revell Companv. i8gg~\ HEATHEN CONDITIONS IN iSoo. 489 between a fetich worshiper and a Mohammedan polygamist. Two yearsbefore and four years after the opening of the present century two greatmissionary societies were established in Africa—the London Missionary andthe Church Missionary societies. The Moravians, those devoted and saintlypioneers in missions, had preceded these societies by more than sixty years^but they at first succumbed to the deadly climate, although now they haveestablished useful missions. Polygamy and slavery have long cursed theDark Continent, and with the entrance of commerce the drink fiend hascome with his desolating presence. And yet such tall, white angels asRobert Moffatt, David Livingstone and the heroes of Uganda, Mackay andPllkington, will watc

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