A Thousand Miles in a Machilla 



The Primitive Methodist Mission Society has 

 stations in North-West and Southern Rhodesia, and 

 has been at work about twenty years. 



The Roman Catholic Mission of the White 

 Fathers of Algiers has already been referred to in 

 these pages^; it has stations in the Wawembe country 

 and other parts of Central Africa. They were the 

 only missionaries with whom we came into personal 

 contact, although we were given information in 

 regard to others. 



Sir Harry Johnston, the author, traveller, and 

 naturalist, a great authority on the black man, has 

 said: ** I am quite certain that whatever small race 

 here and there may disappear in out-of-the-way 

 islands, the black race will never be extinguished, 

 and that it has a future before it, possibly equal to 

 the future of the white man." If this be true, the 

 responsibility of leading the black races in the right 

 path lies with the white man. Let us therefore 

 strengthen the hands of those who undertake this 

 great work for future unborn generations, and let us 

 not throw cold water on their praiseworthy efforts. 



That there is a prejudice against missionary 

 work one cannot but observe. Many earnest 

 workers themselves are well aware of it. Prejudice 

 dies hard, and people overlook the many shining 

 examples, but make much of a few failures. 



It should be remembered when criticising these 

 failures that a great part of Africa to-day owes 



^ See page 60. 

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