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old persecuting Queen of Madagascar obtained freedom of worship for the 

 Christians, and peace and joy prevailed. The Society for the Propagation 

 of the Gospel in Foreign Parts thereafter sent some missionaries to Tamatave, 

 which may be called the chief seaport for the capital, where many heathen 

 lived, and the energetic Cape Bishop slyly said that they were not to interfere 

 with churches already formed; but the good pious man at once sent the 

 touching cry back to London, l Let us go up to the capital.' Sheer want of 

 charity makes me conjecture, that if we had twelve native churches at Unyan- 

 yembe, or Ujiji, or the Tanganyika, the 'Bishop of Central Africa' would 

 eight years ago have been in here like a shot, and no colonel's advice, how- 

 ever foolish, would have prevented him. It is not to be supposed that the 

 managers of the Society named felt that they were guilty of unchristian 

 meanness in introducing themselves into other men's labours, while tens of 

 millions of wholly untaught heathen were usually within their reach. A simi- 

 lar instance occurred at Honolulu a few years ago. Mr. Ellis, the venerable 

 apostle of the Malagasy, was working at Honolulu towards the beginning of 

 this century, when some American Presbyterian missionaries appeared search- 

 ing for a sphere of labour. Mr. Ellis at once gave up his dwelling, church, 

 school, and printing press to them, and went to work elsewhere. Americans 

 have laboured most devotedly and successfully in Owyhee, as Captain Cook 

 called it, and by them education and Christianity were diffused over the whole 

 Sandwich group; but it lately appeared that the converted islanders wanted 

 an Episcopalian bishop, and a bishop they got, who, in sheer lack of good 

 breeding, went about Honolulu with a great paper cap on his head, ignoring 

 his American brethren, whose success showed them to be of the true apos- 

 tolic stamp, and declaring that he was the only true bishop. 



"Of all mortal men, missionaries and missionary bishops ought mani- 

 festly to be true gentlemen ; and it does feel uncomfortably strange to see 

 our dearly- beloved brethren entering into their neighbours' folds, built up 

 by the toil of half a century, and being guilty of conduct through mere non- 

 consideration that has an affinity to sheep-stealing. It may seem harsh to 

 say so ; but sitting up here in Unyanyembe in wearisome waiting for Mr. 

 Stanley to send men from the coast, two full months' march or five hundred 

 miles distant, and all Central Africa behind me, the thought will rise up that 

 the Church of England and Universities have, in intention at least, provided 

 the gospel for the perishing population, and why does it not come ? Then, 

 again, the scene rises up of undoubtedly good men descending to draw away 

 stray sheep from those who have borne the burden and heat of the day, at 

 Tananorivo, the capital of Madagascar, rather than preach to the Bamabake 

 heathen, or to the thousands of Malagasy in Bembatook Bay, who, though 

 Sakalavas, are quite as friendly and politically one with Thovas at the seat 

 of Government. And then the unseemly spectacle at Honolulu. It is a pro- 

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