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Title: Tramps round the Mountains of the Moon and through the back gate of the Congo State by T. Broadwood Johnson. With an introd. by T.F. Victor Buxton
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, T. Broadwood
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Publisher: London T.F. Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ouldnot but mentally compare their blank ignorance withthat of our least enlightened so-called heathen athome. But a new day is dawning, and it is a preciousthing to see lives of faith and acts of self-sacrifice andservice springing up as fragrant flowers where onceflourished but a rank wilderness of self. It has not come about without effort and self-sacrificein the Church at home, in sending out into these dark regions beyond, but is it not worth the effort andthe self-sacrifice ? And it is not coming without a con-flict in the land itself and in the hearts of its people.Just lately I have been receiving letters from Torotelling how the practice of the so-called medicine-man, by witchcraft, has been pronounced illegal bythe native parliament, and this has been done quite onthe initiative of the natives themselves, apart fromGovernment influence. Henceforth, if a man is foundwith the stock-in-trade of a witch-doctor, he is to be im-prisoned. The decree resulted in the capture of over
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Q Z <, < Vj ^^ ^ j3 l-l ■-J inin <-, 5 M^ z z - p TRANSFORMED LIVES 305 two hundred of these dark practitioners. When theywere brought up into the Court and pressed as to whythey practised this pretended intercourse with evilspirits, some of them evidently felt that the game wasup, and answered Tukabiha abantu kwonka (* Wewere just deceiving people ). And so the old order is passing away, but notwithout a conflict with the Evil One ; and anotherscene, illustrating the struggle, comes before my mind.It is the same native parliament some ten years before ;most of the characters are the same, but they pass bydifferent names, for Christianity has only been in thecountry two or three years, and very few are baptized.There is an earnest discussion going on about theaffairs of State. Political difficulties have been encoun-tered, such as are causing them grave anxiety, andthe heathen are casting it up against the Christiansthat it is all the fault of the new r

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