All told, eighty European and American and twelve Indian delegates came together at Rajahmundry in order to advance by the fostering of Christian fellowship among Lutheran brethren and by practically helpful deliberation, the cause of Christ in India. They represented the Leipsic, Missouri, Swedish and Danish missions of the Tamil country, the Hermannsburg, Breklum, American General Council and American General Synod Missions of the Telugu country, and the Gossner Mission of the North. The delegates came from the South of India where the breezes have not yet spent all the spicy fragrance of which, softly blowing, they robbed Ceylon’s isle; they came from the sun-scorched plains of Central India, where great rivers roll seaward in tepid sluggishness; they came from the far north where the vast, snowy reaches of the Himalayas abruptly bound the view. It was a joy to see them, young men still in the newness of the first years of missionary service, perhaps still studying the vernacular of their fields of work; men in the prime of life who had tested their strength upon the tasks God gave them to perform amid surrounding heathendom, and who had become wise in counsel and strong in achievement; older men whose whitening hair confirmed the story, told by their battle-worn faces, of decades of service against the forces of Satan, and who yet burned at heart with the zeal of young warriors. Moreover, there was not a department of woman’s work in missions that had not its goodly complement of women present at the conference.... Could any other Church, besides the Lutheran, have gathered together in one body such a unique, diversified yet united conference of Indian missionaries and Christians?... The conference marked an epoch in the work of Lutheran missions in India, which, united, strong and zealous, will not be content until they occupy advanced ground in the movement of the army of the Lord Jesus Christ.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER IV. The Lutheran Church in Africa THE LAND. The People Womanhood in Africa The Riches of Africa A Continent Betrayed The Traffic in Gin Mohammedanism in Africa Africa under European Flags The Picture not all Dark The First African Missionary a Lutheran THE GERMAN SOCIETIES. (_West Coast_) Basel Gossner North German or Bremen (_South Africa_) Rhenish Berlin Hermannsburg Hanover (_East Africa_) John Ludwig Krapf and Johann Rebmann the Founders Bielefeld Berlin Leipsic Breklum or Schleswig-Holstein Neukirchen GERMANS AT WORK FOR OTHER SOCIETIES. SCANDINAVIAN SOCIETIES. Norwegian Missionary Society Norwegian Church Mission (Schreuder) Swedish State Church Swedish National Society FINNISH LUTHERAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. NORWEGIAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY IN MADAGASCAR. AMERICAN SOCIETIES.