A Thousand Miles in a Machilla 



amination. As teachers they get very small wages, 

 less than they can earn in other professions, 

 yet the college is always full. After five years of 

 teaching, if a man desires it and has a good record, 

 he may go to the Theological College and read 

 for an examination, and so on to the upward path 

 of deacon and priest. 



The Rev. Yohani Abdullah has been for years 

 in sole charge of Unanga— a station sixty miles 

 from the Lake, in the Yao country — which has its 

 stone church and flourishing schools for boys and 

 girls. He is held in much respect by his fellow- 

 natives. 



At Malindi — a stronghold of Mohammedanism — 

 is a large engineering shop for steamer repairs, also 

 European and native hospitals, dispensary, church, 

 and schools. With a larger staff and more funds 

 a chain of stations could be made to the coast. 



It is proposed to commemorate the Mission 

 Jubilee by the formation of a third diocese in 

 North-East Rhodesia, the scene of Livingstone's 

 last labours. The Mission is anxious to establish 

 itself before the coming of the railway, which 

 will bring in its wake all sorts — good, bad, and 

 indifferent. 



The Church of Scotland Mission was inaugurated 

 in 1875 as a memorial to Livingstone. His death 

 two years before had stimulated the desire to lift out 

 of darkness the benighted beings whom he had 

 loved, and for whom he had sacrificed his life. 



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