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ty miles from the mainland. Alongo: occupied as a station, 1850; Rev. Ibia F. Ikenje; one native licentiate preacher. Outstation at Mbiko on the mainland opposite Corisco; three native assistants.

GABOON: Baraka, on the Gaboon river, near the equator, ten miles from the sea; occupied as a Mission station, 1842; transferred to the Board, 1870; Rev. Graham C. Campbell and his wife; Mrs. Thomas E. Ogden, Miss Lydia Jones, and Mr. Peter Menkel. Outstation at Rembwe, on the Gaboon River: Rev. Ntaka Truman.

NEAR NENGENENGE: seventy miles up the Gaboon river; at Angom occupied as a station, 1881; Rev. Arthur W. Marling and his wife. At Nengenenge, outstation; one native teacher. At Munda:

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joyed-Talaguga and Angom. The former is situated on the Ogove, the latter on the Gaboon, where these rivers leave the mountains, and where their waters flow in a rapid, clear current.

The report made in May, 1886, shows a somewhat more encouraging prospect, though the rival claims of the French, German and Spanish to the territory where a portion of the mission is established still cloud the work.

The statistics show 221 members at Bolondo; 240 at Mbadi, Benita; 75 at Corisco; 40 at Gaboon and 40 at

of Brooklyn, N. Y.

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THE BISHOP TAYLOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.

Bishop Wm. Taylor and Dr. W. R. Summers left the United States for Africa the latter part of 1884. They were followed on January 22, 1885, by Rev. A. E. Withey, wife, and four children, of Rock, Mass.; Levi D. John. son, M. D., of Oskaloosa, Iowa; Rev. Ross Taylor, wife, and four children, of San Jose, Cal.; Rev. Jos. Wilks, wife and child, of Kendalls, Mich.; Rev. Clarence L. Davenport, of Gardner, Ill.; Rev. Levin Johnson, of Beaver Falls, Minn.; Rev. Henry M. Willis, wife and child, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Chas. W. Gordon, of Lynn, Mass.; Wm. P. Dodson, of Easton, Md..; Chas. L. Miller, of Baltimore, Md.; Chas. M. McLean, of Woodstock, N. B., Can.; Henry C. McKinley, of Raymore,

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was used for the first native school which had its beginning Monday, June 29, 1885, under the superintendency of Wm. P. Dodson. was formerly the Residence of Señor José e Cunha, and the houses and grounds were purchased by Bishop Taylor. The tent seen on the right

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for the mission, much of which is to be cultivated. Mrs. Withey writes from this place: "We are pleasantly situated here, in a beautiful country surrounded by mountains elevated 2,300 feet above the level of the sea. We live in a stone house at present, rather small for our large family, six adults and ten children, but we are roofing over other rooms, as the building was in somewhat of a dilapidated condition, but we shall soon have more room including a good school-room. At present all school work has stopped to press the planting, so that the garden.

A raft was taken from twenty tons, fitted with used above the falls of t were supplied with a sc and tools for putting it to Congo. The American M Bishop Taylor the stea used by its missionaries i Bishop Taylor writes f to Richard Grant:

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shall have the benefit of the rains. For nearly two months husband and Bro. Dodson, (our school teacher), have had all the responsibility and work of this station, as the other two men have been sick. They have had heads and hands full, but by the blessing of the Lord, and being very careful they have kept well. We are well now and happy in Jesus, contented with the will of the Lord. Our prospects are bright."

On March 20, a second band left New York for Africa. They were Rev. E. A. Shoreland, Rev. Clark Smith, M. D., wife and four children, (Grace, Jesse, May and William, aged respectfully, 5, 7, 9, and 12), Rev. J. H. Cooper and wife, J. J. A. Harrison, M. D., Rev. J. L.

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it should take a year or even two, in case of drought to
reach a safe basis of self-sustentation it will be better than
the old plan that employs 40 years at it, and does not,
except in isolated cases, reach it in 40 or probably twice
40 years. I say success to all such missions. They do
a good work, but if we can in a barbarous country like
this utilize the indigenous resources and agency and get
such a short cut on it, and move so rapidly as is possi-
ble on this line, why should not every child of God re-
joice and praise Him for such a work? Glory to God
in the highest."

The General Association of the Colored Baptists of
the Western States and Territories of the United States
have sent two missionaries to the Congo, Rev. T. E. S.

There was a time town were rather ha to a great extent tha white man off the si sent and strike the him and take him t fined or lodged in j upon the white man that was created was

It was a pleasing s beheld this land of w their strange-looking odd-looking people grass or mud huts h

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