p. 10 | A RATHER WEAK CHAIN

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 1, 1899

A RATHER WEAK CHAIN.

SOMETIMES missionary reports take on a little of the character of boasting. Here is the way in which Rev. T. W. Woodside punctures one of this class of reports from Africa: 'I read a short time ago, in one of the leading missionary magazines, of the new mission station at Lake Moero, and there it was remarked that 'now there is a chain of mission stations right across the Dark Continent.' Let me explain just what that means: From Benguela inland for two hundred and fifty miles (twelve days' journey) there is not a station, not a missionary. There a station, with two families, then four days, and you come to another station; again three days, and you come to a third station. From there you make forty camps, or forty days' journey, to the little station Kavungu, of the English mission. From there another jump of fifteen days to the Garaganze mission, where you find two lone men, missionaries; another leap of fifteen or more days to Lake Moero. And this is the 'chain of mission stations.' These stations are mere points, lone links; and then to the north and south are large tracts where there is not a missionary.'