A Mission Opportunity on the Gold Coast
The Gold Coast government is building a railroad from the beach at Sekondi to Kumassi, one hundred and seventy miles inland. The building of any railroad in a tropical country is no small task. Here there are no wagons, no mules, no wheelbarrows. All the dirt is moved in baskets which are carried on the heads of natives. There are a few white men and thousands of natives employed in the undertaking. Tarkwa and Obuassi, the one forty and the other one hundred and thirty-one miles from Sekondi, are both the centers of districts in which there is considerable prospecting for gold. Thousands and thousands of dollars have been spent and will be spent in this prospecting work. The difficulties do not seem to discourage anybody. Yet there is not a white minister or a missionary either at Sekondi or Obuassi. White men are coming to these places, but not one Christian minister. The opportunity of establishing a mission station in one of these places is a rare one.