CHAPTER X

CHRISTIAN MISSIONS

Their work the antithesis to the slave trade—Portuguese missions to Congoland, to the Zambezi, to Abyssinia—First Protestant missions—Church Missionary Society—Dr Krapf—Wesleyans, Methodists, Society for Propagation of the Gospel—Roman Catholic missions to Algeria, Congoland, the Nile—Cardinal Lavigerie—The ‘White Fathers’—The Jesuits on the Zambezi—in Madagascar—The London Missionary Society—Swiss and German Protestant Missions—French Evangelical Missions—Presbyterian (Scotch) Missions—Norwegian and American Missions—Linguistic work of latter—Universities’ Mission—Plymouth Brethren—Baptists—North African Mission—Zambezi Industrial Mission—Abyssinian Christianity 239