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Central Africa, 
Central Africa by the great highway of the river Congo, we 
come upon a most promising and important mission. It is 
. called the Livingstone (Congo) Inland Mission, and seeks 
to obtain entrance into the land by means of the great 
water-highway which Stanley discovered and followed to its 
mouth. The agents of this society are trained at the East 
London Institute, this mission having been founded in 
1878 ; so that it is comparatively a young mission. Still, it 
is a vigorous working one, and seems to be well directed 
and stimulated by its chief director, Mr. H. Grattan 
Guinness. Its object is to found an industrial^ evangelical^ 
self-suppo7'ting mission along the valley of the Congo River. 
This valley is said to contain 900,000 square miles, filled 
with a large population. To give one missionary to each 
hundred square miles of this region, would require the em- 
ployment of nine thousand missionaries ; so that the Congo 
Mission has entered on what might well seem a herculean 
task. But this is impossible ; no society could ever hope, 
in the present state of things, to be able to commission so 
vast a number of workers. The agents of this society are 
instructed to establish at different points on the bank of the 
river, or near it, stations, where Christian training shall be 
combined with instruction in agriculture and the industrial 
arts. They hope in time to gain entrance into Western 
Central Africa, introducing at once. Christian truth and 
lawful commerce. Ultimately, the mission will be self- 
supporting, each agent being taught to act as a Christian 
emigrant, or colonist. In the words of Mrs. Guinness, who 
tells the story of the Congo Mission at full length in her 
recently published pamphlet : " In Central Africa, with a 
luxuriant soil and a comparatively sparse population j with 
undeveloped resources and much natural wealth ; with peo- 
ple who have strong trading proclivities, self-support will, 
