AFRICAN PIONEERS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 166, 8 April 1919, Page 11

AFRICAN PIONEERS

A MISSIONARY LECTURE. ' "African Pioneers" was (lie subject of a lecture delivered in 'ihe Y.JJ..C.A. Assembly Hall last evening by Miss L. 11.I 1 . Eoniwell, of tiie Sudan United -Mission. The lecture was illustrated with lantern slides that added greatly to its general effectiveness. Miss Boniwell outlined tho history of Christianity in Africa from the earliest times when ho who \yas known as the "Knight of tho New Crusade." went forth in the .thirteenth century hearing the. t!o3ppl to parts where it had never been preached before. The rise of the, Christian religion in the dark continent 1 was associated with such famous names as those of Livingstone, Stanley, mid Alexander MacKay. Some token "of what had been achieved was to lie seen in ths Christ Church Cathedral, which stood on the very spot whero once the famous Zanzibar slave market had stood. The , lecturer had something to say of Hie need of Africa to-day. She vari'iei] her hearers that during the past ten yenrs over. 7,000,000 pagans had accepted .Islam, and to-day Islani was increasing with.,creator rnpidiiy than at any oilier time since its earliest .years. Her nppciil was for more workers'to go out and light iii the cause of Christianity.