The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 3, March, 1880 — John Shaqi
The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 3, March, 1880Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 3, March, 1880
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
Ujiji, the location of the Tanganika Mission is endeared to the friends
of Livingstone. Here he made his temporary home, and here, almost ready
to die, he was discovered by Stanley, to be restored to vigor and to
toil still longer for Africa, till at last he was found dead upon his
knees. The plan for a mission here was formed by the London Missionary
Society, scarcely less venerable than the Church Missionary Society.
Mr. Arthington of Leeds, Eng., one of the generous and prompt donors
of $25,000 for the Nyassa Mission, gave a like sum for this. Four
ordained missionaries, one scientific man and one builder, left
London in March, 1877. Their journey from the coast of Africa was
protracted over thirteen months in consequence of the many obstacles
and vexatious delays. Added to these trials, death did its fearful
work. Under these discouraging circumstances, Dr. Mullen, the intrepid
and beloved Secretary of the Society, obtained the reluctant consent of
the Directors to lead in person an additional force, and to hasten the
progress of the supplies. But he had gone only 200 miles from the coast
when death closed his useful career. No event in the last five years
has cast such a gloom over mission circles in Great Britain as the sad
fate of this noble man.
3. Nyassa Mission.
Again is the stimulus of Livingstone’s labors seen, and his name and
memory honored in the founding of another mission: the Livingstonia on
Lake Nyassa. It was a labor of love for the Free Church of Scotland,
aided by sister communions to undertake this mission. In the Spring of
1875, the expedition started, having been furnished with all needed
supplies, including a beautiful steel steamer and two boats for the use
of the mission on the Lake. After a tedious journey up the Zambesi and
Shiré and a toilsome land journey of 60 miles, around the Murchison
Falls, the Lake was at length reached.
After a brief search, a site was selected that held out unusual
hopes of coveted advantages—there were no mosquitos and a favoring
lake breeze gave promise of health. But alas for the unforeseen
and insignificant difficulties that sometimes defeat the greatest
undertakings—the fatal tsetse fly compelled the choice of a new
location. But we cannot give space for the subsequent details.
The disasters and deaths in these missions have had a depressing effect
upon the hearts of Christians in Great Britain, and we fear that the
discouragements will to some extent be felt in this country. But we
must guard ourselves against hasty inferences and unwarranted fears. We
should remember:—
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