Reality Versus Romance in South Central Africa

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. KWANJULULU AND KOMONDONGO. An English mission.?The illusion dispelled.?Garanganze.?Five years' work.?Their own superstition best.?Echoes of Service.?Vegetable products.?Visit to Komondongo.?The late war.?Cause of the rupture. ?The peacemaker.?Burning villages.?Capture of Chindunduma.?The...
More Description

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. KWANJULULU AND KOMONDONGO. An English mission.?The illusion dispelled.?Garanganze.?Five years' work.?Their own superstition best.?Echoes of Service.?Vegetable products.?Visit to Komondongo.?The late war.?Cause of the rupture. ?The peacemaker.?Burning villages.?Capture of Chindunduma.?The mission station.?Adversities.?Chronic bummers.?Mush and beans.? Courting privations. KWANJULULU is the headquarters of the English Brethren Mission, and is situated in the territory of Bihe, within a day's march of the American mission stations, Komondongo and Cisamba. This entering a district already occupied by the American Mission has been unfortunate, and the cause of no little friction. Surely there is room enough in Africa for different societies to organize mission centers without treading on one another's toes God forbid that Africa should ever know the jangling and rivalry of the sects so prevalent in more enlightened lands. The Kwanjululu Mission is superintended by a Mr. F. S. Arnot. My preconceived ideas in favor of this mission have received such a shock, as week by week its actual condition has been laid bare, that I would prefer to draw a veil of silence over all I have seen and heard here; but I am impelled, from no other motive than my interest in missions generally, to plead for a chapter{{Section 4reformation in such quarters, lest the day come when the enthusiasm aroused at home by the flaming and high-colored reports of grand conquests of the gospel will suffer reaction. The supporters of this enterprise have been led to contribute large sums of money toward what may be truthfully designated a huge farce, and, when the manner in which they have been hoodwinked is brought to light, disastrous reflections will be cast upon the noblest enterprise of...