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pressed, and to feel that it was good for them to be present to see eight souls 

 publicly renouncing the world, and giving themselves to the service of Grod. 

 But still all this is only like a drop in the bucket ; thousands and thousands 

 are sinking into perdition unsaved. The fields are white to the harvest, but 

 the labourers are few. Oh, in these days of revival, surely some will be found 

 ready to come to Africa with their simple but effective instrumentality — their 

 sling and their stone from the brook, to help us to slay this Groliath of hea- 

 thenism I" 



In the foregoing accounts of missions and missionary work, we have an 

 amount of interesting and valuable information, from which many important 

 lessons may be derived in the further prosecution of missionary labour in 

 Africa. Amidst many failures and discouragements, there is much to be 

 grateful for, and much that is fitted to stimulate and encourage all who are 

 engaged in the great work of African evangelisation. It is with much plea- 

 sure we learn from accounts just to hand, of the encouraging prospects of the 

 Church of England Mission at Zanzibar, in reference to which Mr. Stanley, the 

 correspondent of the ''New York Herald" and London " Telegraph," says: — 



"As we have arrived at the English Church Mission buildings, what 

 shall I say about the mission except the honest, truthful facts ? The Right 

 Rev. Bishop Tozer, ' Bishop of Central Africa,' in priestly purple and fine 

 linen, is no more to be seen here, and it really appears as if the mission had 

 opened a new life, and had begun to lift its head among the useful societies 

 of the world. As yet I have seen no great increase of converts, but fair pro- 

 mise of future usefulness is visible everywhere. As a friend to the Church 

 which has sent this mission out, I was formerly restrained from saying much 

 about it, because I knew very little good of it ; and had I not seen the erudite 

 but undignified prelate exhibiting himself in such unusual garb to the gaze of 

 the low rabble of Zanzibar, I would certainly have passed the Church Mission 

 and its mistaken ways of converting the heathen in silence. Now, however, 

 1 may speak with candour. The great building at present known as the 

 British Residency, was, in 1871 and 18T2, the Episcopal Palace and Mission 

 House. After its sale to the English Government, the missionaries removed 

 their school to their country house, a half mile or so beyond the extremity of 

 Malagash inlet. With the money obtained by the sale of the Mission House 

 the superintendant purchased the old Slave Market — a vacant area sur- 

 rounded by mud-huts, close to the cattle-yards of the Banians and the ooze 

 and stagnant pools of the Malagash. On the site of so much extreme 

 wretchedness and crime the Church missionaries have commenced to erect 

 structures which, when completed, may well be styled superb. These build- 

 ings consist of a fine residence, a school, and a church, which, with another 

 building, just begun by Lackmidoss the Banian, will surround an irregular 

 square, in which palms and flowers and fruit trees will be planted. 



