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102 Central Africa, 
sionaries have passed away n connection with different 
mission-fields in the Eastern and Central portions of that 
continent, since Dr. Livingstone died. Western Africa has 
been called " the white man's grave/' while the annals of 
missions prove how large have been the gaps made in the 
ranks of the army of missionaries by death, and how nu- 
merous have been the losses. Still, however, the work goes 
on ; volunteers come forward and declare themselves ready 
to be " baptized for the dead," by taking up their work and 
carrying it on. Thus the land is taken possession of, and 
the light of the Gospel is carried on to yet remoter regions. 
During the last forty years, over one hundred and twenty 
missionaries have fallen before the combined effects of 
climate, fever, and work, in West Africa ; but the converts to 
Christianity on that coast now number over 30,000. 
It is interesting to know that about thirty-three mission- 
ary societies are labouring in Africa at the present time, 
and representing by these labours, the Christian efforts of 
England, Scotland, America, and Europe. May the Lord 
hasten the time when Ethiopia shall stretch out her hands 
unto God. 
