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Missionary Prospects in South Africa. 



"Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, 

 and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. And 

 it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a 

 little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand." i Kings xviii. 43, 44. 



Dr Livingstone's career must be considered as opening out 

 a new a?ra for South Africa. Although the missionary prospects 

 of this region were before and are improving, still clouds and 

 sunshine chequer the rising scene. Yet, in the event, the 

 dawn of the morning of joy shall usher in upon this continent 

 and elsewhere, the rising of the Sun of righteousness, which 

 shall be for the healing of the nations, streaming with undi- 

 verted ray in azure and purple and gold over the everlasting 

 hills of eternity, dispelling those doubts, fears and perplexities, 

 as well as the unbelief and sinfulness which prevent the soul 

 from seeing an( j being united with her Creator. 



The Mission-field in South Africa. 



"Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields ; 

 for they are white already to harvest." St John iv. 35. 



In the infant days of the Church, Africa seemed destined 

 to be evangelized from the north. Such is not at present the 

 prospect. Then were Councils and Synods held by African 

 bishops, the decrees of which went forth apparently as a final 

 authority in matters ecclesiastical, not only in Africa, but also 

 in Europe and Asia. Then was the glory of the early Church 

 upheld at Alexandria and Carthage, these cities being great 

 centres of episcopal authority. Then did African martyrs 

 and African confessors live the lives of saints and die the 

 deaths of Christian heroes. There were intellect, rank and 

 the best qualities of our nature, sanctified and adorned by 

 Christian gifts and graces, which made Africa appear to be 

 the chosen genial soil wherein grace, mercy and truth might 

 germinate and fructify. But no; all there is now almost a 



