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THE DARK CONTINENT

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Pacific Press Publishing Association

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 1.

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THE DARK CONTINENT.

ETHIOPIA shall soon stretch out her hands unto God. She is now doing it. Her very condition, her open doors to commerce, sin, and religion, her breaking up, are appeals to the servants of God to enter and proclaim the Gospel.
The area of Africa is over 11,500,000 square miles. Its population is 168,500,000. It is divided into nearly forty States, provinces, colonies, and districts, a half dozen of which are independent.
It is the home of the black race, many of them sunken in pagan ignorance and the grossest superstition; many of them Mohammedans; some of them, as in South Africa and Abyssinia, nominally Christians, but with few real followers of Christ.
Native Egyptian Woman and Child.
Native Egyptian Woman and Child.
There are to be met fevers, pestilences, violence, cannibalism, poisonous insects, death-dealing reptiles, wicked, treacherous nations, and hearts as hard as steel and dark as night. Missionaries are demanded who are wholly consecrated to God; who know how to care for the body as the temple of God; who have faith in God for physical as well as spiritual ills; who are full of the Word and Spirit, to win souls.