Practical Work for the African Heathen
By R. S. Greaves
OUR main station in Sierra Leone is at Waterloo, where we have a training school, and from here young men are sent out to preach the good news of salvation. In connection with the school, we have a farm, also a wagon factory, so that the boys can receive instruction along industrial lines. This enables them to be practical men. We have opened several stations in the interior, and are planning to push still farther inland. Our brethren on the east coast are advancing this way, and we hope to be able to meet them soon in the center of Africa. Then the blessed gospel will have reached across the “Dark Continent,” for which Livingstone and so many others have given their lives. Many of our boys are anxiously awaiting the time when they can leave school and go out to teach their own people of the Saviour. The African is often convinced of a mighty power beyond himself, by the very things of nature all around him; and that he desires to worship is shown by the fact that he bows down to wood and stone. We feel that the burden rests on us to lead him from his ignorance to the true and living God. To this end we plan and pray, and shall be glad for the coöperation of all our Christian friends.