APPENDIX. ‘147 
«The manner in which this expedition connects the in- 
terests of science with religion, forms a feature in it as strik- 
ing as it is novel. ‘The Christian religion and science belong 
to one family,—they naturally support each other, and they 
invariably flourish where that alliance by which the Al- 
mighty has bound them together is held sacred. Science is 
indebted to the Christian religion for the only soil in which 
its seeds can spread themselves over the world, and impart 
to men blessings of civilized life; and without science, 
Christian Missionaries, and the Christian Scriptures, and 
all the apparatus necessary for printing, and schools, would 
never have found their way over the trackless ocean, or over 
the African desert, to evangelize and bless mankind. The 
dark superstitions of Africa, the belief of the natives in 
witcheraft, and in their Rain-makers, and the notions enter- 
tained by the Hindoos and Chinese of the phenomena of 
nature, of the causes of eclipses, and of the revolutions of 
the heavenly bodies, &c., &c., being interwoven with their 
religious belief, are scarcely more opposed to the religion 
of Christ than they are to the acknowledged principles ‘of 
pure science ; and while the Missionaries are educating the 
population of those regions in the knowledge of the first 
principles of religion, giving them a taste for European 
science, science is, on the other hand, shaking the founda- 
tions of their erroneous belief, and preparing the way for 
the final triumph of Christianity. Impressed as we are 
with the importance of this union, we cannot help regarding 
with more than usual interest, an expedition in which, for the 
first time, are seen our men of science and our Missionaries. 
We can scarcely conceive of an undertaking that. will excite 
a more deep and universal interest, than the report of an 
-expedition to explore Central Africa, conducted as this is; 
-accompanied by Missionaries from Berlin, the capital of 
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