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the head waters of the Zambesi. The Livingstone Inland 

 Mission has some missionaries on the Atlantic coast at 

 the mouth of the Congo, and others who are working 

 inwards, while a monthly journal is edited by Mrs. 

 Grattan Guinness, entitled The Regions Beyond. The 

 Baptist Missionary Society has a mission in the same 

 district, towards the elucidation of which the Rev. J. T. 

 Comber's Explorations Inland from Mount Cameroons 

 and through Congo to Mkouta have thrown considerable 

 light. 



More recently still, the American Board of Commis- 

 sioners for Foreign Missions, having resolved to devote to 

 Africa Mr. Otis' munificent bequest of a million dollars, 

 appointed the Rev. Dr. Means to collect information as to 

 the most suitable openings for missions in Central Africa ; 

 and on his recommendation, after considering the claims 

 of seven other localities, have decided to adopt as their 

 field the region of Bihe and the Coanza, an upland tract 

 to the east of Benguela, healthy and suitable for European 

 colonisation, and as yet not occupied by any missionary 

 body. Thus the old world and the new are joining their 

 forces for the evangelisation of Africa. And they are 

 not only occupying regions which Livingstone recom- 

 mended, but are trying to work his principle of combining 

 colonisation with missions, so as to give their people 

 an actual picture of Christianity as it is exemplified in 

 the ordinary affairs of life. 



Besides missions on the old principle, Medical Missions 

 have received a great impulse through Livingstone. 

 When mission work in Central Africa began to be seriously 

 entertained, men like Dr. Laws, the late Dr. Black, and 

 the late Dr. Smith, all medical missionaries, were among 

 the first to offer their services. The Edinburgh Medical 

 Mission made quite a new start when it gave the name of 

 Livingstone to its buildings. Another institution that 

 has adopted the name for a hall in which to train coloured 



