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Joseph C. Hartzell, D.D., a well-known and much-respected personage 

 in West, South, and South-east Africa. Bishop Hartzell supervises 

 all the American missionary work in Western Africa between Liberia 

 and Angola, and in Rhodesia and Mocambiquc. The Associate 

 Bishop in Liberia is the Right Rev. Isaiah Scott. 



The Methodist Episcopal Church has about 2,700 adherents, 

 48 ministers and missionaries, 40 lay teachers, 59 Sunday schools, 

 and 2,709 scholars. 



3. The Presbyterian Church. — Presbyterian missionaries 

 began work in Liberia in 1832. At present their operations are 

 chiefly confined to Monrovia and the St. Paul's settlements. 



4. The Baptist Church. — Earliest of all Christian Churches, 

 the American Baptists entered Liberia (in 1821) to perform 

 chaplain's duties — so to speak— for the American colonists. Their 

 pioneer pastor was the Rev. Mr. Waring, the father of Miss Jane 

 Waring who married Roberts, the first President of Liberia. Mrs. 

 Roberts is living still (in London), the only survivor of the original 

 band of colonists. 



The Baptists have most of their adherents in Monrovia (with 

 a large church and Sunday school) and in the Basa settlements. 



5. The African Methodist p:i>iscopal Church. — This 

 Church or Mission, which in a sense is more exclusively Negro in 

 its sympathies, began work in Liberia in 1885. It has mission 

 stations in three counties of Liberia (not in Sino). 



6. The Lutheran Church is represented by a very energetic 

 missionary enterprise chiefly in the St. Paul's River district, 

 with stations at Arthington and Mount Coffee. 



There are Muhammadan mosques at Vanswa (Brewerville), 

 and of course in the far interior Mandingo towns. 



Of the approximate 2,000,000 of population, about 40,000 are 

 Christians, about 300,000 Muhammadans, and the remainder Pagan.s. 



LIST OF PRESIDENTS OF LIBERIA 



Joseph Jenkins Roberts, January ist, 1848, to January 



1st, 1856. 

 Stephen Allan Benson, January ist, 1856, to January 



I St, 1 864. 



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