p. 9 | Progress by Mission Field

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 21, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 25.

Progress

By Mission Field

Progress.—In 1855 the first missionaries left Barbados, and took up their abode in the Rio Pongo, to the north of Sierra Leone, once a favourite haunt of the slave-traders. The two first heads of the mission—both of them men who gave up home, comfort, and friends to work cheerfully and heroically in Africa—were of European descent, but each succumbed after a short time to the effects of the fatal climate. Since that time almost all the missionaries have been men of color, and to them the climate has been comparatively harmless. The work has gradually extended southwards, and a strong educational center has been established in the Isles de Los.