The Methodist Episcopal Church in Africa. work for ten years on the Congo, and will not probably return, had her expenses provided for in coming home. Mrs. William J. Mead and three children will come home from Angola, friends having provided part of the expense and the Board the remainder. She will probably not return to the field. COMPENSATION FOR MISSIONARIES IN AFRICA. pensation of workers in Africa should be ad- the bishop, the secretary in charge, and the Committee on Africa, with the approval of the Board. This action was taken at my special request. This means that there will be no regular scale of salaries in Africa. If the law had been applied to the twenty-five missionaries recognized it would have required a provision for over $13,000 in salaries alone, and any thought of making so large an addition to our working force in Africa would be out of the question. We are taking care of the work in Angola with all the missionaries named above in that field for 1898, with an appropriation of $2,250 from the Missionary Society. Fortunately, in the providence of God I have some special funds from which some additional aid can be given. By the plan adopted in reference to Africa there is an opportunity for arranging the pay in accordance with the responsibilities of the appointee, and the exigencies of the work on the field and at home. The way will be open for the sending out of competent people who will be glad to go at less expense than the fixed salaries of other countries, and also for those to go who either themselves or through their friends can provide wholly or in part for their own support. TRANSFER OF PROPERTY. Another very important action was the arrangement, by mutual understanding with Messrs. Anderson Fowler and Richard Grant, representing the Transit and Building Fund Society of Bishop William Taylor's Self-supporting Missions, for the turning over to the Missionary Society of the several properties owned by that society in Africa. HAPPY CONCLUSION. Thus there is a happy conclusion of all matters between the Missionary Society and Bishop William Taylor, and his missionaries and the property involved in Africa. For this I am thankful to God and feel very sure 257 that the Church will recognize in the happy conclusion divine leading. All the abiding results in workers and work found in connection with Bishop William Taylor's missions have been conserved and are now an organic part of the Church. The bequests which were turned over to me by Bishop Taylor and reported to the General Missionary Committee in 1896 have already yielded enough to pay the outstanding claims when the bishop turned the work over to me as his successor, and also to help tide over for 1898 the scanty mission- I rejoice that Bishop Taylor is resting at his home in California, and my prayer is, that day by day the benedictions of the until in triumph his remarkable earthly Most High may continue to rest upon him, career shall end and he be welcomed unto his eternal reward. AFRICA AND THE MISSIONARY DEBT. I brought with me from Africa over three hundred and fifty dollars on the missionary debt. This money represents sacrifices of a most heroic type from our missionaries, and also such giving from native Christians as should send a thrill of joy and satisfaction throughout the whole Church. I had the missionaries tell the story at Conference how they raised the money. Native boys and girls denied themselves to pay from fifty cents to two dollars apiece. In one little company of natives, where a collection had never before been taken, seventeen milreis (which means about fourteen dollars in American money) were subscribed. The remainder of the debt could be wiped out in ten minutes any Sunday morning if the pastors would use that many minutes in a prayerful and sincere request to the people that it should be done. God grant it may be so! WORK IN LIBERIA, My second visit to the Liberia Annual Conference served to impress me still more profoundly that in proportion to our responsibilities as a Church in that republic our forces and facilities for missionary work are wholly inadequate. The brethren of the Conference themselves fully realize this and plead for reinforcements of men and teachers. I have left the First Church in Monrovia to be supplied, and hope to find a firstclass man to go out at once. We must have a mission press in Liberia, and I am having the old printing house and bookstore in Monrovia rebuilt, and need at once a printing outfit and a missionary printer to go with it, so that we can publish a monthly paper, which is absolutely necessary in carrying on that work. well as sewing machines for industrial work among the girls, and also outfits for schools in tinning. Money put into these industrial schools will yield enormous results in manhood and womanhood, and do in Africa just what our industrial schools are doing so wonderfully in the South in the building up of self-reliant and efficient men and women. OUR WORK IN ANGOLA. Our educational work, at the head of which stand President Camphor and his wife, has made excellent progress the past year, and my plans are to enlarge as rapidly as possible this department of the work. The College of West Africa at Monrovia, under President Camphor, is now well organized, with six teachers, and the hope is to organize ministerial and normal training classes. We are hoping to have a large number of young This Conference was organized in June, people under our care. Eighty dollars a 1897, and represents the results of Bishop If anyone is specially interested in having a full historic statement of Bishop William Taylor's work on the Congo and in Angola, let him send twenty-five cents to me, and I will send him a copy of the Minutes of the Congo Mission Conference. R WAH COUNTRY R.Sangwin Greenville Sinoc Baffoo Jacktown Farmersville Louisiana Napína kru Niffu Sas Town from Greenwich Grand Sess Wedah Garaway СОБЕВО Nynneme Bolobo Barreka Plebo Cavalla Craway Grand Bande Plukey Cape Palmas year will take care of a student, and I need | cause several missionaries must return home at once money enough for a dozen or more. on a vacation, a large proportion of them havWe have the students do all they can to ing been in the field for twelve years. Here, help themselves, and then ask the parents too, we must have a mission press, which will and friends to do what they can, and then be devoted entirely to the printing of tracts we provide the balance. and cards and pamphlets and the Holy Scriptures in the native Kimbundu language. Here we have access to multitudes of natives of a high class. I shall be very glad to correspond with anyone especially interested in the establishment of this mission press. With the outfit once secured the annual expense will be but slight, requiring only one good practical printer to superintend, as all the work can be done by native boys after a few months of teaching. We need twenty teachers from our schools in the South for our mission churches and schools in Liberia, and I have made an appeal through the Southwestern asking for teachers who will go for five years for their traveling expenses and $100 a year in addition to their living. Already some are offering. Here is an opportunity for our heroic young colored people in the South to go, and for the friends of missions to help provide the expense. We are organizing several industrial schools and I need right away several outfits for schools of carpentry and of blacksmithing as Another very interesting phase of the work in Angola is the employment of evangelists and Bible readers and day school teachers among the native villages. Thirty dollars a The Methodist Episcopal Church in Africa. 259 year will maintain a native teacher. As I prises in eastern Africa. Here I am offered traveled along the caravan paths going through those villages, my heart longed to have this work of employing native teachers go forward. We have two children's orphanages, one at Canandua, another at Quessua. I wish some Sunday school or Epworth League would send a Christmas present to these children and help them to be happy over the birth of our Saviour, although they are surrounded by dark heathenism. 13 Tauntonville LowerBeaudoinville Kailu Loango valuable concessions and the cooperation of prominent Englishmen, who express the desire that America and England should unite in the development of Anglo-Saxon civilization where for thousands of years the people have been submerged in barbarism. The country is high and healthy, being 5,000 feet above the sea, capable of large development in agriculture, and is destined to have a large population of white people as well as of natives. The Lord seems to have saved Philippeville Brazzaville Kilpoko Inkie Ngotu Stephanieville FRENCH Chilang C Sabukas M.Kundi Bangodi Gana Damate I need schoolhouses and at least three this open door for American Methodism. new churches right away in Angola, and I trust that all who read these lines will at least offer one sincere prayer to God for his blessing upon all our workers in Africa. OPENING DOORS IN SOUTHEAST AFRICA. All the work mentioned thus far is on the West Coast, but on the East Coast we have a very interesting and hopeful work at Inhambane and extending interiorward. We have four noble missionaries leading the hosts there, and they are aided by Massabe Kabinda B Moanda Chimbelu Lukulla Many angal Isangila Toonda R. Ikungu Ponta da Pomba San Antonio Chitembe TLA Noki Baara Kaily G Mawumba CON Lutete R Lu Kinsuka Matadi Tomboko Talambans R. Lumbi Chivallo, Kinganga Konko Bembe Kikella Cabembo Petro Lume R Lombe Kingunji Popacabaca E Kullu Chia Wambo R. R Kuango R Muari Kalumbo R Kutlu R. M'Brij Musserra Kingombo Muena Futa Tunduala N'Guri Acama Muata Kabembe Dande R. Ambaca Braganza Kamum kingeuiba o Brauza do Ham Cutata Coanza R. Cassanha. N. Golome Casengo C.S.Bras Longa R Demba Pungo Andongo Longa R. Kuma Gango R CEAN Tunba Novo Redondo inza Luke R. Kuango Malem bas Kapenda Sauza KassansheBanza Mussulum Kimbamba Katunde Cobungo Pata Kibuangaúa༽ Lulo R. Kutato Loanda Moeendes Quicombo Guenze Kibashe Kuango Cangombe Kisugelle Calunganga Kanjeka Peboo When I told the story of this opportunity, and of the plans I proposed to suggest, before the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Committee in London, I was assured that so far as that body was concerned they would leave that field to us. How providential all this seems. God evidently calls American Methodism to a large share in the evangelization of the Dark Continent. Another remarkable opening for the WORK IN MADEIRA ISLANDS. establishment of an industrial mission The Liberia Conference includes the work among natives is in eastern Rhodesia, at on the West Coast of Africa north of the Old Umtali. This is one of the strategic equator, and does not that include the adpoints for commercial and missionary enter- jacent islands? At any rate God in a most GRAND ARMY OF LIBERIA ON REVIEW AT MONROVIA, THE CAPITAL OF THE REPUBLIC, SHOWING METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND COLLEGE OF WEST AFRICA. Our Missionary Work and Outlook in Africa. 261 wonderful manner opened the way for the Spain are pouring in hundreds of priests organization of a mission among the English and Portuguese at Funchal, Madeira Islands, one of the most beautiful and healthy spots on earth. It was on this island that half a century ago the heroic Dr. Kalley, a Scotch Presbyterian physician, by the circulation of the Scriptures and the practice of medicine as a Christian physician among the poor, was the instrument in the hands of God of developing a remarkable Protestant revival. The Story of Madeira, published by our Book Concern, tells the remarkable history of how the simple, pure word of God led many hundreds of those plain people among the Portuguese to forsake the idolatries of Romanism and become faithful followers of Christ. When persecuted they fled to Brazil, and later some of them to Illinois, and later on their work grew in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, so that to-day nearly all the Protestant work among the Portuguese in Brazil, the United States, and Portugal itself is the outgrowth of the work in Madeira. I have in my possession one of the identical New Testaments which was given by Dr. Kalley to a boy eight years old, and who is now an old man, happy in the Lord. This old man read out of his Portuguese Testament to myself and wife and other Christian friends, while tears of joy filled his eyes as he feasted upon the precious words. A FINAL Word. With the single exception of Liberia the whole African continent, with its 150,000,000 of native blacks, is passing under the rule of the white man. Roman Catholic France and Belgium and Portugal and every year. Mohammedanism, which seems to be reviving with renewed vigor and power, is multiplying her schools and missionaries throughout all North Africa, and in some points also in the South. The demoralizing influences of rum and of wicked white men are doing their perfect work wherever commerce is being advanced. If ever the King's business demanded haste it is in the work which the Christian Churches, especially of England and America, are called to do in Africa. Menelek, the native king of Abyssinia, is having three million gold coin struck off for his people, in Paris. On one side is a picture of himself; on the other side there is a lion, around which are these words: "Ethiopia holds out her hands to none but God." So even although the barbarous nations of Africa do not know it, yet in their aspirations for something better they are unconsciously holding out their hands unto God, and that means that the Church of God must fill those hands with the word of life. My address while in America will be Bishops' Room, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York City. My mission to America is to learn what the Church at large and the special friends of Africa will do in strengthening my hands and faith in the great work committed to my oversight. I shall be glad to hear from any who want information as to Africa and its special needs; and from any whom the Lord may lead to look to Africa as a place to work for him, or may desire to aid financially. Concerning Africa I have asked and am expecting great things of God. New York, May 20, 1898. THE OUR MISSIONARY WORK AND OUTLOOK IN AFRICA. HE work among the Americo-Liberians rica, and the second year of President Camin the republic of Liberia, on the West phor's administration has opened under Coast, is in the oldest foreign missionary field very favorable auspices. He expects to of the Methodist Episcopal Church, having have fifty boarders. I rented and am furbeen begun in 1833. At the late Annual nishing a three-story building for a boys' Conference, held during the first week in dormitory. It is my plan to have a school February, I stationed eighty-five workers, in every one of our mission churches, and to the majority of whom were lay teachers and this end I have made a call for teachers missionaries. The greatest necessity in that from among our colored people in the South work now is the development of schools. who are willing to go for five years for their The name of Monrovia Seminary has been traveling expenses and their living in Lichanged to that of the College of West Af-beria and $100 a year. The churches will |