The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 08, August, 1879Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 08, August, 1879
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
The annual meeting of our English Auxiliary took place at Union
Chapel, Islington (Rev. Dr. Allon), June 6th. The Earl of Aberdeen
presided. The Rev. Dr. O. H. White read the general report of work
done in the United States and to be done in Africa. The Rev. J.
Gwynne Jones presented the financial statement. The total receipts
had been £5,270; £4,727 had been expended in direct mission work,
and the balance in hand was £205. £3,000 had been promised by
Mr. Arthington, of Leeds, towards the establishment of a mission
in Central Africa. The American Missionary Association had fully
considered the proposal and deemed it practicable, and they desired
now to raise another £3,000 in this country, trusting that they
would be able to command funds in America for carrying on the work,
if its outfit should be substantially secured here.
Miss Jennie Jackson, of the Jubilee Singers, then sang one of
their plaintive hymns, after which the presiding officer addressed
the meeting, referring to his personal observation of the slave
trade in Africa. The Rev. Dr. Moffat followed, saying that he had
been the servant of Africa for sixty years. Since he went out as
a missionary in 1816 he had been incessantly engaged in advancing
the Redeemer’s kingdom in Africa. He had had many opportunities of
witnessing what the Gospel could do in Africa, and he could testify
that it was the salvation of every one that believed. Mr. J. B.
Gough then spoke in his usual entertaining and forcible way.
On the motion of the Rev. Dr. Allon, seconded by the Rev. Dr. F.
Billing, the following resolution was adopted:
That this meeting desires to express the deep sense it entertains
of the favoring providence of God in connection with the
education of the emancipated slaves of America, for teachers
and missionaries to their own race, and also in connection with
the mission work accomplished by some of the society’s students
(ex-slaves) on the West Coast of Africa. And this meeting
would renewedly record its conviction that in the Christian
education of the Freedmen we are working in the line of a
special providential arrangement for a native agency for the
evangelization of Africa.
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MISSIONS IN CENTRAL AFRICA.
At the recent anniversary of the London Missionary Society, the
Rev. W. F. Clarkson, B. A., of Birmingham, made the following
remarks upon Missions in Central Africa:
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