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Title: The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Walker, F. Deaville Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Subjects: Missions Methodist Church
Publisher: London : Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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nsvaal District hasmade since the war is best illustrated bythe following remarkable figures. Church 1898. 1910. English Ministers 24 56 African Ministers... 17 34 Evangelists U 50 Day-school Teachers 77 119 Local Preachers ... ... 607 1,652 Full Members ... ... 8,794 20,302 Members on Trial ... 3,506 1,788 Adherents ... 46,615 84,844 It must be remembered that the returnsfor 1898 were almost wiped out during thewar. The increased membership is start-ling, and we must note the fact that only2,521 of the full members are Europeans,the rest being natives. No less than 1,544of our local preachers are men of Africanrace; this is unique in the history of mis-sions. During the first six and a half yearsafter the war, Mr. Burnet reported morethan 10,000 adult baptisms from heathen-ism. Wonderful are the works of our God! # # # # # Portuguese We have still to trace the off-shoots of East Africa ^^le Transvaal Mission in Portuguese East 14 PORTUGUE,ANGOU •^^^smm^m OAMAPALAND GREAT \nAI U>
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Our South Africa Mission Field 141 Africa and Southern Rhodesia—the latternow a separate District. Along the East Coast, between theTransvaal and the Indian Ocean, is thesouthern extremity of Portuguese EastAfrica. Our W.M.M.S. work is almostconterminous with the Administrativedistrict of Louren90 Marques; it extendsfrom Tongaland on the south to theline of the Limpopo and Olifants E-iverson the north, from Delagoa Bay onthe east to Swaziland on the west.Included in this area are the old nativekingdoms of MaPuto, Tembe, MaToUa,Zihlahla, Shirinda and Ntimana. Thepeople among whom we work are the Ba-Konga of the great Bantu race. DelagoaBay is one of the finest harbours in theworld, but the whole country is malarial. Our w^ork was begun in 1823 byWilliam Threlfall, who, after ten months of William , r. JIT Threlfall incessant lever, was carried on board aschooner and taken to Cape Town—only tobe murdered shortly afterwards in an effortto reach Great NamaQualand.* The workwas abandon

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