Arthur Douglas, Missionary on Lake Nyasa

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Excerpt from Arthur Douglas, Missionary on Lake Nyasa: The Story of His Life Very nearly a year has passed away since the subject of this memoir met his death on the shores of Lake N yasa at the hands of a Portuguese corporal. Arthur Douglas was out in Africa as a Christian mission ary. The only offence which he committed was that of protecting some native girls from the unruly lust of another white man. It is certainly not straining language, therefore, to say that he died a martyr's death. At the kind request of his brothers and sisters and of the Universities' Mission I undertook this memoir, and its compilation has been a labour of love. It has been my object to let the letters tell their own story, and it will be seen that they do, in no small degree, give a vivid picture of Douglas' life in Africa first at Kota Kota, then at Likoma, and lastly at S. Michael's College, while the letters themselves are supplemented here and there with recollections of their author which have been kindly sent to me by several of his fellow-workers in the Mission. In the earlier chapters especially, and indeed throughout, I have been greatly helped by those who were' nearest and dearest to him. The two golden threads which run through his whole career are, I think, dutifulness and prayerfulness. Coming from an almost ideal home he had early learnt the lesson of implicit obedience to duty, and as soon as he arrived at Ely the habit of prayer, which he had no doubt in the same way formed in childhood, began to grow and deepen. How beautifully these two threads wove themselves into his after life this little volume abundantly shows. 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.