Opening West Africa to Missions
Lieutenant Hughes, of the English navy, has discovered an uncharted creek on the west coast of Africa, which proved to be the main channel of the Bonny River. Along this creek he discovered some cliffs that were as much as forty-five feet high, and there is a channel in the stream some seventy feet deep by which these cliffs may be approached. This territory is to be made the terminus of the railway, and will be the coal-distributing center for all west Africa. By enforcing some of the sanitary regulations that have been in operation in the Panama Canal Zone, they hope to make this section of the country sufficiently healthful for a white man to live there. This will be a great boon to missionary operations in that section of the world, because it has been practically impossible for white people to live there. Many a life has been lost in the attempt to do missionary work, to say nothing of the lives lost in business enterprises, along that coast. It is remarkable how God is preparing the way for His gospel of the kingdom to be carried into every nook of the whole world.