SOUTH AFRICAN MISSIONS.
By Lewis E. Glenn
(Lewis E. Glenn, in Pentecost Herald.) There are many difficulties that confront the Christian world with regard to real successful evangelization in different parts of the dark continent. Hundreds of precious lives of some of the most noble-hearted men and women have been sacrificed for Africa's redemption and still it remains the DARK continent. Many lives were sacrificed through experimenting on self-supporting or industrial missions, which increased the exposure of the missionaries to the deadly climate, and they were laid in their graves before ever being able to strike one successful blow at heathenism, except by the holy example of self-sacrifice. Foreign missions everywhere must be the fruit of the self-denial of Christians in the home land. The sinful neglect and selfishness of the professed people of God is responsible for the fact that more than half of the human race are still heathen, and millions of them never heard of Christ. If South Africa especially receives the advantages of the free Gospel of Jesus it must be when Christians at home are willing to sacrifice of their means to the extent that the few consecrated missionaries who do go will be enabled to devote their time and energies to evangelizing the heathen, and not be required to spend their fast fleeting months in self support or their lives be shortened through sheer neglect of Christians at home. Africa must be reached; the dust of its scores of martyrs is pleading for consecrated men and women to take up the noble work from which they have had such an honorable discharge. Millions of devil-driven, lust-inflamed and miserable human beings cry by their groans and wretched lives, if not by word of mouth, to the professed followers of Christ: “Come over and help us.” Hundreds of self-sacrificing laborers are buried in its sands, and hundreds more are either laboring there or are ready to go. Who, by their self-denial, will send of their means to the help of these missionaries to the end that their lives might thereby be made more useful or prolonged?