A5 IlOrL Quarterly Bulletin Stewart Foundation Edition V ATLANTA, GA. Gammon Theological Seminary, February,1899 OUAR.TER.XiY UUXiLETIN vol. i;-i 1899 2ST©. -3= Published by the Faculty of GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMIN ARY, S. Atlanta, Ga., in April, June, November and February. Advertising Rates —Five dollars per inch per annum. Reduction on a half-column or more. Guaranteed circulation, 2,000 copies Subscription price, one year, twenty-five cents. Entered at the post-office, S. Atlanta, Ga , as second-class mail matter. Prize Productions Prize Essays or Orations and Hymns must be forwarded to the Secretary of the Foundation on or before April 1st. The instructions given in the November circular should be followed strictly. Owing to the delay on the part of the writers of the prize-productions in furnishing the Secretary with their post-offices and in making known their choice of prizes the work of distributing prizes won in 1898 was not completed until 1899. To pre¬ vent this embarrassment, observe the following order: When forwarding your production to the Secretary, state your choice, whether bible or books. If books, write at once to Curts & Jennings, 220 W. 4th St., Cincinnati, O., for latest catalogue from which to select according to. direction. The hymn writers need not send for catalogue since the prizes for hymns are already stated. As soon as you receive word from the Secre¬ tary as to the amount granted to your prize, make the selections and for¬ ward without delay to the Seminary. Word comes from many quarters of an aw T akened interest in the prize-productions for 1899. All of the bands have reorganized and are at work in missionary investigations. Farewell Missionary Meeting The departure of a Missionary to a foriegn field always awakens the deepest interest of a Christian community. It was a large and sympa¬ thetic audience which greeted the liev. J. A. Simpson and wife in Chris- man Hall of Clark University on Tuesday evening, January 10th, to bid them God-speed in their journey to Africa as missionaries. This service was held under the auspices of the Foundation, which records, in Brother Simpson’s departure, the third missionary inspired by its work to go to Africa. The program included addresses from President W. P. Thirkield representing the Seminary; Dr. Bowen, representing the Stewart Mis¬ sionary Foundation for Africa; Rev. M. M. Alston, Presiding Elder of the Griffin District; Prof. IV. H. Crogman, representing Clark University; Rev. G. IV. Alexander, D.D., representing the African M. E. Church, with a response from Brother Simpson. In his address Brother Simpson sketched his earliest convictions for missionary work and how he had been led into clearer light and larger consecration to the work by having come to the Seminary and under the influence of the Foundation. He graduated from the Seminary 1897, and won a second prize for an oration in the missionary contest held at the Seminary in April, 1896. 2 After his address, his wife was presented to the audience, and'while they both stood they were greeted with the Chautauqua salute. Clark University Choir furnished the music, singing some of the original prize hymns written by members of the different Missionary Bands. The audience gave a collec¬ tion to furnish Brother Simpson and wife with necessary traveling articles. The farewell hymn,“God Be With You Till We Meet Again,” was sung and the benediction pronounced by President Melden,and the vast audience came forward and shook the hands to these two missionaries. Brother Simpson goes with Bishop Hartzell of join Brothers Camphor and wife and Sherrill and wife and other missionaries in Liberia, West Africa. Brother Sherrill and Party in a Severe Storm We give some extracts from a letter from Brother J. C. Sherrill to Dr. Murray, dated Teneriffe, Grand Canary, January 8, 1899: “ We sailed from Liverpool on the Roquelle, December 24th. We had a very smooth sea until we got into the waters of the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay. Here we were in a great storm for four days and nights. It seemed as if we would all be lost every moment. The prow and stern of the ship were at times, by turns, ten feet under the water. Our state rooms were filled. The men at the engines were in water to their knees Sheep, geese and other animals were drowned. Life boats were dashed to pieces against the rigging. The sailors gave up. Men wept like children. But your little band for Africa, like that little Moravian band of old, was not without hope. We prayed to the Lord to do his will. We were willing to die on our way to duty, yet we felt that the Lord in his own way would save us. We finally passed out of the Bay of Biscay after four days and nights of hard struggle.” From this time on the missionaries had smoother sailing. They were hospitably received into the home of our missionary at Madeira, Rev. William G. Smart, during the few hours that the vessel stopped there. They had landed safely in Liberia long before the letter reached its destination. Prof. Camphor, President of the College of West Africa, writes in a recent letter: “The educational work is encouraging. The Liberians love education. The churches are more advanced than our average churches in the South— that is, in their modes of worship. The people are not loud and noisy in worship. They prefer the thoughtful educated preacher to the noisy, thoughtless haranguer.” ********** I am working for dear life to center all the interests and enthusiasm I can gather right here in this school. We have representatives from nearly all the trines in Liberia, the Kroo, Vey, Congo, Grebo, Pesseh, Golah, Bassa and others. Oh ! why can’t, and why don’t our young men and women lay themselves upon God’s altar for service in Africa ? The work is hard and almost suicidal it is true, but how is the great commission ever to be exe- 3 cuted—how is Africa ever to be redeemed, unless we wake up to this great¬ est and most sacred of duties—‘Go.’ ‘So send I you?’ The black man must begin to feel keenly the right of the responsibility of Africa’s redemp¬ tion, for the reason that God has wonderfully opened the way for us to get the light that these poor heathens are devoid of, and for which they are pitiously and constantly crying.” African Notes The Phil-African Liberator’s League, under the leadership of Air. Heli Chatelain, lias successfully planted its first missionary station at Lincoln, in Portugese West Africa. The New Africa , a monthly periodical published in our College in Liberia, makes its appearance. The Missionary Society,at the suggestion of Bishop Hartzell, projects the paper for our work in Africa. The first issue is well imnted and is full of missionary news. In South Africa there is a country larger than all of the United States east of the Missouri River, in which a new Anglo-Saxon empire is develop¬ ing. Already there are 700,000 white people, about equally divided between the English and their descendants, and the Holland Dutch and their descendants. In this section there are now more than 6,000 miles of rail¬ road. Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban, in the far south and southeast, are splendid cities, while 650 miles north of Cape Town lies Kimberly, with its 20,000 people, the greatest diamond center in the world, from which $15,000,000 worth of diamonds are shipped every year. Farther north lies Johannesburg, the great gold center. South Africa leads all other nations in the world in its gold output.—Bishop Hartzell, in The Missionary Review of the World. Rounding the Cape of Good Hope, the lastest maps show quite a network of railroads in British South Africa. The longest and most important of these is what is already ambitiously spoken of as the “ Cape and Cairo” road, which the English hope, as the name indicates, to eventually extend from the Cape of Good Hope at one end of the continent to Cairo at the other end. The trains are already running nearly 1,300 miles northward, as far as Buluwayo, lately Lobengula’s capital. It is expected that this line will connect, by means of steamers on Lakes Nyassa and Tanganyika, with Lake Victoria Nyanza in Uganda; and the English are pushing their Egyptian railway up the Nile in the hope of eventually reaching Uganda. This Nile railway already extends more than 1,000 miles up the river to Berber, near the junction of the Blue and White Nile.— The Missionary. The Zulus, while fierce in war, are sociable, polite, and hospitable in times of peace. Poultney Bigelow, in “ White Alan’s Africa,” writes as follows: “ The Zulus are by nature ladies and genlemen ; that is to say, they are better mannered, speak more gently, are more graceful in their move- 4 ments, and altogether better company, than any room full of my own people that it has ever been my good fortune to meet.” It is only when they are on the war-path that they show a savage spirit. Should a stranger happen to visit them, he would be treated with the utmost hospitality, and be allowed to remain as long as he desired without charge. They are keen observers of men and things ; intelligent and quick¬ witted. An able American missionary, Dr. Josiah Tyler, who spent fully forty years among them, says : “ In mental as well as in physical ability we may regard them naturally as in no respect inferior to the whites. They are as capable of as high a degree of culture as any people on the face of the globe. They are not only emotional, but logical, and have retentive memories, and can split hairs (in argument) equal to any Yankee lawyer.” The Forward Movement of Our Church in Africa The Methodist Episcopal Church is prosecuting her work in Africa with a zeal that characterized her early days of missionary work. All of the official and non-official papers have called attention to this rising mission¬ ary tide and have joined in pressing the claims of the work upon the con¬ science of the church. The Missionary Committee, with a large faith in the church and in the providential offering in Africa, comes up to Bishop Ilartzell’s appeal with an increased appropriation for new work. Bishop liartzell'has issued an appeal for the contingent appropriation of $40,001). lie has received in substantial pledges $23,000. He states the case in his appeal called the New Africa, thus : How much money would the committee appropriate for Africa for 1899? One distinguished layman said, “You ought to have $100,000, and how gladly we would give it if possible.” But after all the magnificent giving which had paid the debt and given an increase of nearly $50,000 in collections over the previous year, the society had comparatively little to spread out over its world-wide field in the way of increased appropriations or the entering of new doors. The committee did well by Africa, considering all the facts. It gave Liberia the same as last year. The chief trouble was with the Congo Mission Conference, where for the first time the Church faced the responsibility of caring for Bishop William Taylor’s missions and work, to say nothing of wonderful openings for new work, especially in Rhodesia, under the British flag. The best that could be done, in justice to other fields, was $15,000; but, realizing how inadequate this amount was, the committee made a contingent appropriation of $40,000, provided it could be raised. The brethren faced the New Africa, and felt the inspiration of high and noble Christian purpose. Shall the New Africa have this contingent appropriation? In a few days I will be on the ocean and on my continental field, not to return until 1900, and my plea is that friends of the New Africa will subscribe this amount. One queenly woman gives $2,400, and writes, “I am anxious to plant at least one school in Africa and know that it is bearing fruit before I die.” Two brothers gave $5,000 each on condition that certain amounts are raised. 5 Another incloses a draft for $1,000, and says, “I shall follow you with con¬ stant interest and prayers for success.” Still another says, ‘‘Here is a two dollar and a half gold piece for Africa, one of my golden wedding presents.” Still another, “I cannot do much, but here is fifty cents for your cause.” The principal of a primary department handed me $15, and said, “We will help you support a missionary.” Several Epworth Leagues have written, “We will give you $30 a year to support a native teacher, or $50 to pay for one of the twenty carpenter and ten blacksmith outfits you need for industrial schools in Liberia, or thirty apprentice outfits which you need in Angola or East Africa.” One good friend writes, “I have no money myself, but my prayers and faith are for you and Africa, and some of my friends have given me $2.75 which I send you.” These are specimen words and deeds of cheer which have blessed me during the past few weeks, and my prayer is that such words and deeds may continue until the whole amount named by the committee is pledged. Friends of Africa and Missionary Bands The foundation may be said to be in touch with all the centers of the work of Methodism in the South among the Christian people of color. As an evidence of this fact, the following list of societies is given : FRIENDS OP AFRICA IN THE SCHOOLS Gammon Theological Seminary and Clark University —“The Stewart Friends of Africa.”—President, Prof. J. W. E. Bowen; Vice President, Prof. W. H. Crogman, LL. D.; Recording Secretary, Miss Pinkey Davis ; Corresponding Secretary, W. H. Stripling; Treasurer, L A. Woods. Central Tennessee College —“Friends of Africa.”—President, John Braden, DU.; Secretary, Prof. D. W. Byrd, A.M. Bennett College— “ Samuel Crowther Friends of Africa.”—President, S. A. McNeill; Vice President, Miss Carrie Z. Hunt; Recording Secretary, Brisbon E. Anerum; Corresponding Secretary, W. B. Windsor; Assistant, Maud L. Sutzer; Treasurer, R. B. Withers. Virginia Industrial Institute —“Bishop J. C. Hartzell Friends of Africa.”—President, Miss Julia E. Brown; Vice President, E. W. Cook; Recording Secretary, C. S. Harper; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. M. G. Taylor ; Treasurer, Miss Lelia Lacy. Morgan College —“David Livingston Friends of Africa.”—President, Prof. ,T. IT. Lockerman ; Vice President, Prof. F. J. Handy; Recording Sec¬ retary, Miss Ella B. Dowell; Corresponding Secretary, John W. Fenderson ; Treasurer, Julius S. Carroll. Olaflin University —“Friends of Africa.”—President J. C. Gibbs ; Vice President, Miss A. Ij. Townsend ; Secretary, W. L. Sawyer; Corresponding Secretary, Miss M. C. Littlejohn ; Treasurer, C. K. Brown. 6 Rust University —“Friends of Africa.”—President, Samuel Rayford ; Vice President, W. J. Echols; Recording Secretary, Charles A. Shepard ; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Eflie D. Threat; Treasurer, P. W. Howard. New Orleans University —“ William Taylor Friends of Africa.”—Presi¬ dent, Prof. Jno. H. Brown. Wiley University- —“The Bowen Friends of Africa.”—President, R. E. Brown; Vice President, Miss M. J. Morrow; Recording Secretary, Miss Effie Simpkins; Corresponding Secretary, H. R. Jones; Treasurer, T. J. Douglass. Philander Smith College —“ George B. Nasmyth Friends of Africa.”— President, Mrs. H. N. Nasmyth; Vice President, Prof. C. S. Deming; Re¬ cording Secretary, J. H. Hubbard; Assistant Secretary, Miss Georgia Ingram; Treasurer, W. C. Rivers; Organist, Rosetta Hays; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. IT. N. Nasmyth. Morristown Academy —“Friends of Africa.”—President, Miss Carrie Clement. Huntsville Academy —“ Willing Workers Friends of Africa.”—President, J. H. Morris; Vice President, Jas. B. Gorum; Recording Secretary, Miss Lulu L. Tivis ; Treasurer, Oscar A. Miller. Gilbert Academy —“ Friends of Africa.” Cookman Institute —“Friends of Society.”—President, John Stays; Sec¬ retary, Miss Addie Williams. MISSIONARY BANDS IN THE CHURCHES Winston, N. C.—St. Paul’s M. E. Church—President, Mrs. J. A. Rush ; Vice President, H. Mebane ; Recording Secretary, Miss Cora Hickson ; Cor¬ responding Secretary, Mrs. W. T. Fuller; Treasurer, Mrs. Lucy Smith. Greensboro, N. C.—St. Matthew’s M. E. Cnurch—President, Mrs. Maria E. Day ; Vice President, Rev. M. M. Jones ; Recording Secretary, Mrs. M. E. Yancey; Treasurer, Mrs. M. T. Nelson. Baltimore, Md. —Sharp Street M. E. Church—President, W. Ashbie Hawkins. Metropolitan M. E. Church—President, Wm. II. Murray. John Wesley M. E. Church—President, Mrs. Ida E. Colbert ; Recording Secretary, Thos. IT. Smith. Ames Chapel—President, D. T. Brown ; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Ellen Carter. Centennial M. E. Church—President, Mrs. Helen Cooper. Charleston, S. C.—Centenary M. E. Church—President, Mrs. A. J. Brightman; Vice President, Miss Esther Alston; Recording Secretary, Miss Adna Morrison ; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Anna E. Small; Treas¬ urer, C. M. English. Old Bethel M. E. Church—President, Miss E. Thompson ; Vice President, Miss S. E. Barson ; Recording Secretary, Miss Helen Perry ; Corresponding Secretary, Rev. J. H. Johnson ; Treasurer, J. C. Lawrence. Wesley Chapel—President, Mrs. Annie P. Smith; Recording Secretary, Wm. Taylor. 7 New Orleans, La. —Union Chapel—President, Mrs. Ida M. Hail. Wesley Chapel.—Missionary Band. Mallalieu Chapel,—Missionary Band. Shreveport, La. —St. James’ M. E. Church—President, Miss M. A. E. Thomas; Vice President, Mrs. B. M. Hubbard; Recording Secretary, Miss Jennette McMillon; Corresponding Secretary, Clara W. Johnson; Treas¬ urer, Mrs. A. Legardy. St. Paul’s M. E. Church—President, Miss B. C. Harris. Galvestox, Tex. —Tabernacle M. E. Church—President, Mrs. Alice High¬ tower ; Vice President, Miss Maud Marshall; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Delia Holborn ; Corresponding Secretary, J. A. Thompson ; Treasurer, Mrs. Eliza Clarke. Galveston, Tex.— St. Paul’s M. E. Church—President, Mrs. P. H- Matthews. Memphis, Tenn. —St. Paul’s M. E. Church, Missionary Band. Jacksonville, Fla.— Ebenezer Church—President, G. W. Holloway ; Sec¬ retary, Miss Carrie Cutton. Founder’s Day The interest in the observance of Founder’s Day increases with the pass¬ ing years. Many of the community knew Mr. Gammon personally, and all of the students and friends of the institution hold in grateful remembrance his large gifts for the education of ministers. It is not surprising, there¬ fore, that Gammon Hall is well filled year by year on this day, that is set apart to commemorate the life and good work of this noble servant of the Church and friend of humanity. After an overture on the piano by Mrs. Dr. Bowen and an appropriate hymn sung with genuine Methodist fervor by the large audience, prayer was offered by the Rev. J. P. Wraggof ’88, now pastor atNewnan. President Thirkield briefly referred to the significance of the day and introduced the Rev. Ernest Lyon, D.D., of Baltimore, as the orator of the occasion, who was warmly received on this, his first visit to the Seminary. Dr. Lyon then gave a forceful and stirring address on the theme, “No Triumph without Sacrifice.” He paid a glowing tribute to the founder of Gammon Seminary. “ Since deeds are indestructible and ideas imperishable, then the deeds and ideas of Elijah Gammon, the founder of this institution and the benefactor of a suffering people, will never perish as long as there is need for the preach¬ ing the Gospel. The deeds and ideas of this noble man are not represented simply in the bricks and the mortar which constitute these splendid build¬ ings, but also in the lives and characters of the men who leave these walls, themselves to be the molders of public opinion, the performers of noble deeds, the creators of great ideas, and the master builders of human character. Elijah Gammon, like Richard Gobden, belongs to that class of men who, though absent from us, are still members of this body, independ¬ ent of dissolution ; independent of the caprice of constituents, and inde¬ pendent even of the course of time. 8 “ Sacrifice,” said he, “ means in all the languages to give up something for the good of others ; to give up voluntarily, without force or restraint, a loved or cherished object for the good of another person ; adherence to principle, devotion to cause, and loyalty to truth, in the midst of ridicule and even death, for the good of others.” These fitting words of introduction give but a faint idea of Dr. Lyon’s most thoughtful and earnest address, the eloquent periods of which fre¬ quently called forth enthusiastic applause from the entire audience. The New Africa It is a fitting time at the end of the century to exhibit Africa, and now under the new masters. Like poor Poland, it has been fully partitioned, though unlike Poland, not torn limb from limb. What political changes the next century will bring in a continent which has interested the world for thousands of years cannot be foreseen ; but there is no probability that a great native negro kingdom will rise. The control is likely to continue where it is now placed in European hands. The few states that may be called native have no promise of permanence. The destiny of the two Boer Republics is absorption in British South Africa. Mr. Stead, it will be observed, is very confident of this; and he has good reasons for his confidence. Independent Morocco and semi-independent Tripoli, on the Mediterranean, have no future of their own. Sooner or later they will go to swell the possessions of France and other European Powers. We must regard Africa, therefore, as an appendage of Europe. The white races which pushed back the natives and settled and control the American continent, from Cape Bartow to Cape Horn, dominate all the other continents, and the black tribes of Africa as well as the brown and yellow of Asia, are subject to their rule. The greatest of the Asiatic king¬ doms is in process of decay, and its partition has already begun. It seems terribly unjust for the white interlopers to wrest two continents, America and Australia, from the aboriginal man and make them their own ; to take another from the Asiatic races and erect their standards over it, and, finally, to take Africa from the blacks and subject it wholly to their will. A century ago the white man went to Africa to get slaves ; now he goes to get Africa. But his coming means the end of internal slavery and the overthrow of the rascally Arab man-stealers, the end of destructive tribe raidings, the abolition of human sacrifices, the preparation of an era of peace, the introduction of the industrial arts, the refinement of the savage nature, the spread of missionary enterprise, the rise of schools, and opening of steam highways on land and lake and river. If, therefore, the European comes to steal, he comes to steal not to take away, but to improve and develop and make more valuable. Though in the disguise of a marauder, his errand is one of mercy and peace and progress.— Independent. 9 I hrough the Pygmy Forests of Africa A brief description of Mr. Lloyd’s experiences in the pygmy forests is given as follows: “On entering the great primeval forest Mr. Lloyd went west for five days without the sight of a pygmy. Suddenly lie became aware of their presence by mysterious movements among the trees, which lie at first attributed to the monkeys. Finally he came to a clearing and stopped at an Arab village, where he met a large number of pygmies. ‘They told me,’ said Mr. Lloyd, ‘that unknown to me, they had been watching me for five days, peering through the growth of the forest. They appeared much frightened, and even when speaking covered their faces. I asked a chief to allow me to photograph the dwarfs, and he brought a dozen to¬ gether. I was able to secure a snap shot, but did not succeed in the time exposure, as the pygmies would not stand still. Then I tried to measure them, and found not one over four feet in height. All were fully develop¬ ed, the women somewhat slighter than the men. I was amazed at their sturdiness. The men have long beards, reaching halfway down the chest. They are very timid and will not look a stranger in the face, their beadlike eyes constantly shifting. They are, it struck me, fairly intelligent. I had a long talk with a chief, who conversed intelligently about their customs in the forests and the number of the tribesmen. Both men and women except for a tiny piece of bark, were quite nude. The men were armed with poisoned arrows. The chief told me the tribes were nomadic and never slept two nights in the same place. They just huddled together in hastily thrown up huts. Memories of a white traveler—Mr. Stanley of course— who crossed the forest years ago, still linger among them. Mr. Lloyd then proceeded through the cannibal country and to the coast. He found the cannibals warlike and fierce, but open and straightforward, and had no diffi¬ culty with them. At one place he put together a bicycle he had with him, and rode around their village. A remarkable scene followed, thousands of cannibals—men, women, and children—turning out, dancing and yelling at what they described as a ‘European riding a snake.’ ”—Christian Advocate. The World of Missions The tables of missionary statistics published in the Almanac of the American Board include the returns of 242 societies, wffiich occupy 4,779 stations and 14,614 outstations, besides many stations of smaller societies which do not definitely designate them. The societies employ in all 11,847 missionaries—6,096 men and 5,751 women—with 67,754 native laborers, and return, so far as their reports are complete, 1,148,861 communicants and 810,419 persons under instruction. The total income of the societies is $16,244,372, considerably larger than the total income of last year. Ar¬ ranged according to countries the United States is represented by 32 socie¬ ties, Great Britain by 28, Canada by 6, Germany by 16, the rest of continen¬ tal Europe by 61, and Asia, Australia and Africa by 99. The English socie¬ ties lead in the number of stations and outstations occupied, missionaries, native laborers and members, while those of the United States follow them ; TO the British societies have 394,482 members, and the American, 377,030. The aggregate income of the British societies is $6,471,840; of the Ameri¬ can, $5,158,115; of the German, $807,182; of other European, $893,825; of those in Asia, Africa and Australia, $490,659 ; and of the Canadian societies, $243,627. The largest income is that of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, $1,587,560, a large proportion of which, however, should be credited to colonial rather than heathen work ; next is that of the Church Missionary Society, $1,138,370, nearly all spent on heathen fields ; then those of the Methodist Episcopal Church (including the Woman’s Society) $946,- 402; the American Presbyterian Board, $835,580; the American Baptist Missionary Union, $782,474; the American Board, $687,200; the Wesleyan Missionary Society, $523,486 ; the English Baptist Missionary Society, $392,- 730; the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, $354,765; the Free Church of Scotland, $327,430; the Protestant Episcopal Church, $280,969 ; the Basel Mis¬ sionary Society, $260,899; the Established Church of Scotland, $204,336; the Moravians, $150,681 .—Christian Advocate. Items of Interest The funds contributed by the Friends of Africa and Missionary Bands, including the amount contributed by Mr. Stewart and his son towards Pro¬ fessor Camphor’s work in Africa, reached a little over $100. This was used by Bishop Hartzell in making the necessary purchases, together with arti¬ cles secured by the secretary. The articles have reached Africa, and Pro¬ fessor Oamphor is now using them. The Rev. W. Brooks, D.D., the efficient pastor of St. Mark’s M. E. Church, New York City, with the cooperation of his members, opened his great church in farewell missionary services to the outgoing missionaries to Africa, on December 16, 1898, and January 30, 1899. Addresses were de¬ livered by representative men and women in Methodism. The missiona¬ ries were then invited to a sumptuous lunch. Dr. Brooks and his people deserve the thanks of the Christian public for this historic meeting. We are delighted to welcome the Rev. John A. Rush of ’91, to Atlanta. His pastorate at Loyd Street church opens with signal success. A fine cut of him appeared in the Southwestern of February 9th, and the editor says: “ Brother Rush is an earnest preacher, a successful revivalist and a good financier. We bespeak for him a brilliant career.” An interesting and profitable series of lectures is being delivered before the Seminary, as we go to press, by the Rev. Bishop W. J. Gaines. The bishop takes high ground with reference to the call, character and equipment of Christian ministers. The addresses abound in most useful suggestions, drawn from his own experience, as to practical work and the efficient management of church affairs. We are glad to announce that these valuable lectures will be published in book form, which will open before them a wider field for good. The almost unprecedented prosperity of Clark University is cause for re- joicing among all of its friends. It is especially gratifying to the faculty and students of our Seminary, as we stand so closely related to our sister insti¬ tution. From the beginning of his administration, President Melden has shown himself to be a man of large ability, of high educatioanl ideals, of strong administrative power and with gifts of common sense and adapta¬ tion to the needs of the institution. These have given him success from the start and have won the thorough co-operation of the faculty, students and friends of the institution. The enrollment is about four hundred and fifty, and the outlook for Clark was never brighter. Clark has the good fortune to receive a gift of a beautiful winter home in Florida from a gen¬ erous woman of the Presbyterian church. President Melden is also bring¬ ing other friends to its support. The ability and consecrated devotion of Mrs. Melden to the work have contributed largely to this record of success,, which we gratefully chronicle. The Providential Relation of the Stewart Foundation to Bishop Hartzel’s Work The evidence of God’s working with man is often found in the fact that several humanly independent series of events unite to accomplish great ends which are beyond the foresight of man. Thus the best developments of three great peoples, the Hebrew in religion, the Greek in language and philos¬ ophy, and the Roman in government, were all utilized as a preparation for Christianity and its spread over the world. There are combinations of forces which show that God, in our day, is working with man for the re¬ demption of the Dark Continent. One of these is found in the relation of the Stewart Foundation to Bishop Hartzell’s work in Africa. It was the great life-thought of Rev. W. F. Stewart, A.M., that he should consecrate a large portion of his means to endow a permanent movement to interest and prepare the American Negro for the redemption of his father- land. This he did in January, 1894, in establishing the Foundation. Sev: ral years before this. Bishop Mallalieu, moved by a similar idea, had established student volunteer missionary societies, called Friends of Af¬ rica, in the colleges, with headquarters at the New Orleans University. Rev. A. P. Camphor, A.M., was deeply interested in this work, and was for some time President of the society in New Orleans. Under the Foundation, Brother Camphor took the first prize for a mis¬ sionary hymn in the Seminary in 1894, and the first prize for an oration in 1895. In the fall of 1895, under the Foundation, came the great Congress on Africa. It was the second ever held in America and the first among the colored people. The faculty of the Seminary had only three months in which to prepare the program. A providence seemed to be over the ar¬ rangements which brought together such a noted body of missionaries, Africanists, and workers among the colored people in America. The ad¬ dresses of its three sessions per day for three days were of a high order. The attendance often crowded and even overflowed the large audience room. The enthusiasm was great in the first meeting and continued to rise throughout the sessions. Men of large experience who had attended all kinds of gatherings said they never saw greater enthusiasm, nor enthu¬ siasm which was so long sustained. Some who had given their lives to the Christian education of the American Negro came to the Congress without special interest in his going at present as a missionary to Africa, and were so impressed that they w r ent away heartily committed to the movement. The published proceedings perpetuated the influence. The impression of this Congress on the leaders of the church cannot be measured. The Foundation has resuscitated and extended the Friends of Africa, and established Missionary Bands for a similar work in the churches. When Bishop Hartzell was elected in 1896 and determined to send Ne¬ groes to Africa as missionaries, the work of the Foundation had already been largely instrumental in creating a favorable sentiment, both among the white and colored membership, and had prepared some definitely for this work. When Bishop Hartzell looked about for the fittest colored man to take charge of our educational work in Liberia, he chose Brother Camphor, who, as has been seen, had been especially prepared to accept this call by the influence of the Foundation. In the additions who have recently gone with Bishop Hartzell, are two other graduates of the Seminary, Rev. .T. H. Sherrill, A. M., B.D., class of ’97, and Rev. J. A. Simpson, class of ’98. These brethren both had early impressions of the divine call to missionary work in Africa. The influence of the work of the Foundation strengthened, during their seminary course, these impressions, and they both publicly consecrated themselves to this work. Brother Sherrill’s graduating oration was on Africa. Brother Simpson took an oratorical prize under the Foundation in 1897. In all three cases these graduates, who have gone to Africa, are accom¬ panied by their noble wives, who have joined in like consecration to the work. No event has more profoundly moved or inspired to greater devotion the students, alumni and faculty of the Seminary than this heroic consecration of these from our own number for missionary work in Africa. The Semi¬ nary has a peculiar affection and honor for these her missionary heroes. One of the pledges of the Friends of Africa and the Missionary Bands is to pray daily for Africa. Should we not remember before the throne, by name, Bishop Hartzell and these laborers who specially represent the Stew¬ art Foundation and the Seminary in Africa ? Gan we not be encouraged to appropriating faith, not only by the general promises of God, but also by the many evidences that God is working with us in this the most important movement among the American Negroes, the movement for the redemption of their fatherland for Christ ? But we ought to work as well as pray. Bishop Hartzell is pushing ad¬ vanced missionary movements with great energv and enterprise, and is securing the hearty support of the Church. There is urgent demand for more means and thoroughly prepared missionaries. This demand will rap- 13 idly increase. The open door in Africa will call for all the missionaries which the most energetic work under the leadership of the Foundation can by any possibility awaken to the call of God and lead to wise and enthu¬ siastic preparation. Let us do our utmost to be co-workers with God in this great movement in his kingdom. The Missionary Forces in Africa and the Outlook for Its Evangelization The earliest attempts of Protestant Christians to plant missions in Africa were not successful, in the common acceptation of that term. Looked at from another point of view, they were the forerunners of a mighty move¬ ment which is destined to sweep paganism and Mohammedanism from the face of that great continent with its teeming millions. These attempts began to be made early in the seventeenth century and continued to near the close of the eighteenth, when the permanent work of inaugurating them began. About the close of the eighteenth century the Moravians in South Africa and various denominations of British Protestants in West Africa planted permanent missions, to be followed promptly by the British occu¬ pation of South Africa. The century now closing has witnessed the plant¬ ing of missions in all the great sections of the Dark Continent. Protestant denominations throughout the world have vied with each other in possess¬ ing the land for the Redeemer’s Kingdom. From Great Britain have come the Baptists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Wesleyans, United Metho¬ dists, Primitive Methodists, Friends, and Episcopalians; besides Scotch Presbyterians and United Presbyterians. From the rest of Europe have come the Dutch Reformed ; German, Scandinavian and Finnic Lutherans ; French and Italian Presbyterians, and others. From the Western Hemi¬ sphere have come American Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Congrega¬ tionalists, United Presbyterians, United Brethren and Lutherans, together with some Negro Episcopalians and others from the West Indies. Mr. Frederic Perry Noble of Chicago, in a paper read before the Con¬ vention of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, at Cleveland, Ohio, February, 1898, compmtes that missions are sustained by seventy-eight Protestant denominations, besides the Roman Catholic; and