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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 (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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he other vices moreor less common to Negro and Bantu,and it will be seen how great a battle hasto be fought when Christ calls one of thesechildren of darkness to follow Him. Fromchildhood, such a man has known nothingof moral discipline, and it is difficult forhim to begin a new life of self-control.There is little or no public opinion tohelp him, and he is surrounded with every-thing low and degrading. It is not un-usual to see him sink back to his old lifewith some such exclamation as, It is toohigh, I cannot attain unto it. The African has notions of a greatbut never conceives of His makingmoral demands upon His votaries.of incurring the wrath of a spiritdeter the native from robbing a huttected by a fetich, but the idea of asaying Thou shalt not steal ispletely new. What has God to dosuch a matter ? Add to this the thoughtthat every missionary constantly impresseson his hearers, The eyes of the Lord arein every place, beholding the evil and the God, any Fear may pro- God com- with
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A ZULU WARRIOB Rev. J. Gregory Mantle. Conditions Affecting Work in Africa 111 good, and in the mind of the native therearises some such feeling as once led one ofthem to exclaim, I will not have yourGod; He is too hard, and too sharp-sighted. Yet, though the African often feels thatChrists requirements are too high for him,this, says Herr Warneck, does not create inhim an inveterate hostility to Christianity.. . . I do not think that men or nations ofa low moral state are the most inaccessibleto the Gospel. Liability to violent emotions is a charac- 4. Violentteristic of all the African peoples. Sudden Emotlonsexcitement — whether of pleasure or ofanger—sweeps over them like a veritablehurricane, and they give vent to theirfeelings either by unrestrained mirth anddancing, or by acts of savage revenge. Their laughter is easily turned into 5. Shallownesspassion, and, on the other hand, passion,quickly aroused, as quickly dies down, andthe laughter is resumed. African natureis often

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