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Title: The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Walker, F. Deaville Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Subjects: Missions Methodist Church
Publisher: London : Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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No churchis considered to have attained fullgrowth until the members are preparedto take an active part by voluntary serviceand generous gifts in the evangelisationof the heathen around them. That ourAfrican brethren are not behind in suchworks is evident from the following table.The figures are for the year 1910. Moneysent fromEngland. Money raised Locally. Extra Giftsto ForeignMissions. The Transvaal District ...The Rhodesia District ...The Sierra Leone DistrictThe Gambia SectionThe Gold Coast District...The Lagos District £ 7,5533,655 2,238 314 3,807 3,809 £39,130 2,1877,5851,90619,3004,897 £6,446 1771,540 3324.5321,040 Total money spent inAfrica by the Committeeduring 1910. £75,005^ £14,067 £21,376 Total raised in Africa during 1910 £89,072 * Under this head Government grants in aid of schools,etc., are included, and also contributions received fromEuropeans, which in the Transvaal are considerable. InWest Africa the money is almost entirely the result ofnative generosity.
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Methods of Work in Africa 285 It is startling to find that during oneyear our African Districts raised the largesum of £89,000, and the wonder growswhen we remember that this is theordinary annual amount, and not thereturns of a year of special effort. With the growing consciousness of ability Preparation forto maintain themselves, there comes the ^^^^ ^^^ °perfectly natural and healthy desire togovern themselves, and, where a churchis able to bear the responsibility,such right of self-government as Methodistpolicy allows is gradually introduced. Itis given to the Christian community, calledout of darkness, to have life in itself, andprovision must be made for the manifes-tation and expression of it. The cardinalblunder made by the Church of Rome inits dealings with England—that of at-tempting unduly to retain control of thereligious life of the country by means of aforeign priesthood, instead of encouragingindigenous growth—must be guardedagainst on the mission field. Wisemissi

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