Universities' Mission to Central Africa.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 13, 1 July 1918, Page 97

Universities' Mission to Central Africa.

Many .missions are at- ,• present . m a crtieal and very tjrying, position owing to the uncertainty as what Power will eventually own the country m which they are situated. -The TLMiC.A. is an. example: It started work atMagilaTin 1868 by permission of its native king- : and the 1 approval ,of his suzerain the Sultan of . Zanzibar. Not until 1889 did; the \Germans. secure that 'slice- of : .East Africa '• where the mission had chiefly spread; and established stations.-: "Eie- missionaries had gained the confidence 0f..; the people long before they came! under the Kaiser's sway. The English Mis^sion could iiot for a minute contemplate deserting the infant church which looked to it alone and :so it stayed on under the German and Portuguese flags. : . . The prayer of the Mission is that this land may never agaui pass under German rule. The •. Germans have trated. their white, prisoners as slaves m the eyes of the natives and their return would practically mean thY destruction of the mission ;. the natives haye learnt by bitter experience since the war how hostile, is the feeling, of their late masters to all adherents of the English, Mission. The missionaries bear witness that the Germans have proved themselves, unfit to rule, a weaker race and their. barbarous cruelties^ have disgraced the name, of r ithe white: man. In the aame of Justice and Freedom and for Africa's sake they hope that the country will- be British— all .British— but if Britnin is to. become, the. guardian of yet more colored races how carefully she. needs to guard her own. actions find to avoid all suspicion of abuse of . her powei;..