Missionary Work in Africa
THERE are at work in Africa to-day 104 different missionary organizations using the Word of God, which is translated into 117 different dialects. Educationally, Africa is supplied with 8 colleges, 59 theological training-schools, 83 boarding and high schools, 63 industrial institutions, and 2 medical schools for training nurses, several kindergartens, and some thousands of primary and village schools. With all these rapid strides toward civilization and God, there are about 200 different dialects, of which about half have been given a written language and the Bible, and a very small proportion of each tribe is able to read, so that it is safe to say that not more than a quarter of Africa's dense population knows anything of Jesus. Let us continue to wait earnestly upon the Lord of the harvest for laborers who will take, first, the kingdom of God to these benighted people, and then all these things shall be added.—Exchange.