The Sudan

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jan 12, 1911

THIS region is larger than the whole of Europe, minus Russia, and has a population of from fifty millions to eighty millions. This vast territory is to-day under European control. From Abyssinia across to the Atlantic, and from Egypt south to the great lakes, a new world has within a decade passed under Christian rule. The mahdi has fallen, the Nile has become British, the Niger is divided between England and France; a new German protectorate sweeps from the Gulf of Guinea up to Lake Chad, and shares with France and England the states of the Central Sudan. The power of Islam, which for a thousand years had closed the Sudan, has been broken, and the church of the twentieth century is confronted with a vast new region to win for Christ.—Selected.