SHEUBRO MISSION. 
63 
Your Committee on Mission in Africa would 
respectfully report as follows: We rejoice that^ 
notwithstanding the unfavorable circumstances 
surrounding our missionaries in Africa during the 
past year, we are yet able to report continued 
and permanent prosperity and success in our work 
there. A war was projected and prosecuted by 
the Mohammedans against the friends of our 
mission with a purpose to destroy the influence of 
the gospel and restore to Satan that supreme and 
undisputed control which he has so long held in 
• 
that benighted land. Early in the conflict the 
real nature and cause of this war was understood 
by the people to be a conflict between truth and 
error, light and darkness, righteous and unright- 
eousness, the gospel and heathenism, God and 
Satan; and in the result God is glorified, truth 
has triumphed, the gospel is victorious, our mis- 
sion-work has been made more permanent, and 
intemperance, polygamy, slavery, and Purrowism 
— associate children of the evil one wherever 
found — have been greatly worsted. To God be 
all the glory; therefore, 
Sesolved^ 1. That for ourselves, and in behalf 
of the Church, we devoutly express our gratitude 
to God for his signal interposition of his power 
for the preservation and prosperity of our mission 
in Africa, and humbly pray that still greater sue- 
