Africa and the American Negro

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Excerpt from Africa and the American Negro: Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary, in Connection With the Cotton States and International Exposition, December 13 15, 1895 What land is more entitled to our best thought, or more deserving the most helpful service we can render? Where the country with a history of more romantic interest, or one Whose peoples have had a more varied experience or presented more serious problems for the study Of mankind? Men, whose names are among the greatest in history, have been its explorers, and the students Of its languages and Of its dialects. It is so rich in soils and in minerals as to excite the greed Of the world, and the nations Of the earth have con tended With each other for a division Of its treasures. In the interests Of com merce the steamers Of the merchant princes navigate its waters, and the markets of the world are Open to its products. A literature on Africa, rich in every way, has been created by scholarly men, who have made the most heroic sacri fices that they might acquaint the world with the present greatness and future possibilities Of The Dark Continent. These men, and others such as they, will continue to enrich with the best equipments those who Wish to Wisely study the many phases Of the growing questions in relation to Africa. This Congress was surely in the order Of Divine Providence. God uses men in the development Of His plans. In this instance it was His servant, the Rev. W. F. Stewart, through the agency Of whose consecrated wealth this Mis sionary Foundation was established, and the holding Of this congress was made possible. Men of scholarship, and imbued with the spirit Of Christ, deeply interested in the evangelization Of Africa, came together from various parts Of the United States and other countries, and presented well prepared papers on the subjects which had been assigned them. The discussions which followed revealed mental grasps of the subjects and the hearty interest of the speakers in the principles underlying the whole question. From the begin ning Of the congress to its close the audiences were large and the interest very great. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.