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Identifier: darkcallofcontin00walkrich (find matches)
Title: The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Walker, F. Deaville (Frank Deaville), b. 1878
Subjects: Missions -- Africa Methodist Church -- Missions
Publisher: London : Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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NATIVES AT HOME IN THE KRAAL.
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Photo by Neville Edwards. NATIVES AS WE MEET THEM AT THE MINES. p. 135. Our South Africa Mission Field 135 The discovery of gold on the Rand in The Discovery1886 immediately drew to the countrylarge numbers of men of many races intenton but one thing—gold. We have alreadyseen how avarice brings out the worst andmost selfish qualities of human nature.The town of Johannesburg sprang intoexistence where two or three years before the Witwatersrand was wild, wind-swept veld. But though many of theminers were utterly godless, in others thefire of true piety burned unquenched, andMethodism soon recognised her duty tothe new-comers. The Rev. F. J. Briscoe Among thebecame minister of our first Rand Church, MInersliving for six months in a wagon untilother accommodation could be secured.In this way European work became animportant feature of our Transvaal District.But the native work was not neglected.Indeed, the opening of the mines soon gaveus new opportunities, for men of manytribes gather

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