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Title: Missionary Visitor, The (1905)
Year: 1905 (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
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MPOMBO. Chief of the Nsongo Cannibal Tribesin Africa. 520 THE MISSIONARY VISITOR (September, 1905 own schoolhouses, their own churchbuildings and in many cases not only-support their own workers but sendmoney to carry the Gospel to others. The Ethiopian Movement. — Amongthe missionaries in South Africa thereis some uneasiness as to the above-named movement. It is a desire on thepart of the Christians to be entirely freefrom control by the European and the negro himself must be the primefactor in the regeneration of the blackrace. The example of Booker T. Wash-ington in the United States is attractingthe attention of the entire civilizedworld, and he is giving an object lessonthat is influencing thought in South Af-rica. It is coming to be felt that withthe sending of the missionary to preachthe Gospel must also come the industri-
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THE RAPIDS OF STANLEY POOL, AFRICA. American churches. The Methodist Af-rican Episcopal church is a prime moverin the movement and it seems to begaining ground. To us it seems a hope-ful sign. The independent spirit whichseeks to control anl support its ownchurches and its own religious work isto be commended. But the whites herehave much the same feeling towards theblacks as is found in our own SouthernStates. It is the opinion of those whohave given the most careful study tothis important question that ultimately al and intellectual training, so that thepeople may reach the highest possiblereligious and moral development.Should we decide to open a mission hereit would seem that provision should bemade for religious, mental and industri-al work at the same time. Great Need of Workers.—The need ofworkers in this great field will be seenat a glance, when it is known that incentral Africa there is but one mission-ary to eighty thousand natives and inSouth Africa one to every fourteen

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