CHRISTIAN, MOSLEM, AND PAGAN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 39, 30 September 1911, Page 6

CHRISTIAN, MOSLEM, AND PAGAN.

AFRICA’S PERIL. Tiie activity of the Mohammedan propaganda in Africa was discussed at the World Missionary Conference held at Edinburgh last year. The Rev. Dr. Robson (Edinburgh), reviewing the condition of Africa, with its 590 languages, said one of the first necessities was to throw a strong force across Africa to bar the advance of Mohammedanism and carry Christianity north into the Sudan. Mohammedan traders, every one a missionary, were advancing stoaldily t southward, and the British Administration actually gave every encoulragoment to pagans to become Mohammedans, while hindering their .conversion to Christianity. . Dr. Karl Kumm, from the Sudan, named a great number of tribes well worth converting—tire most warlike in Africa—who ‘had maintained their independence and fetish worship in the mountains against Islam, hut who, owing to European domination in the north and south, were now open to Mohammedan influence. Professor Gustav Warneck, of Halle, in a letter, urged concentration of forces where the greatest battles would be fought—the Far East, and Central Africa. They were In danger of losing- to Islam not only large parts of glow pagan Africa, but territories already Christianised. The Rev. W. H. T. Gairdner (Church Missionary Society), of Cairo, said tintv Dr Miller, the great authority on the Hausa language, suggested .Unit if sufficient native evangelists could not. bo trained in Egypt, they could - be got and trained in North- Nigei ia, where the instincts of the people market! them out as a great evangelising race. Dr Dfiller declared that if they got forty men, a fair preportion being schoolmasters, they could definitely look forward, with some, French help, to evangelising the western Sudan, and thence Central Africa, Dr Jays (Church Missionary Society) complained that in Northern Nigeria the British Government was not oven neutral. It was obvious to both Christian and pagan that the Government had no use for them, only for Mohammedans, though if hostile Mohammedans, now possessing arms, invaded British territory, their cn-ic-ligiouists would join them and only the pagans and Christians would remain loyal. Dr Margoliouth, of Oxford, in bis recent, book on Mohammedanism, states that in the main Islam is a religion of the “Heat Belt,” that part of the earth’s surface which lies between 30 degrees north latitude and 30 degrees smith latitude, though it lias extended beyond these limits. He estimates the number of Mohammedans in Africa at about 59,000,000.

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