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Mission Work in the Madeira Islands

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 15, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 20.

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Mission Work in the Madeira Islands

GREAT interest centers in the work in the Madeira Islands, a group off the northwest coast of Africa, which for four hundred years have been dominated by the Roman Catholic Church. The inhabitants are Portuguese white people, with a colony of perhaps 100 Europeans, mostly English, engaged in trade. The city of Funchal, the capital, contains 50,000 inhabitants, and the islands 120,000. The Methodists have rented a mission property in the city, and in the beautiful mountains fourteen miles away, an interesting and growing mission has been established.