Show ff Missionaries and the Congo LONDON May 28rhe Baptist missionary I mis-sionary society gave breakfast today to Stanley African explqrer In an address Stanley was thanked for opening i open-ing up the way to the Christianization of Africa and for helping missionaries to secure stations and to extend the influence of their teachings Stanley in I his reply said he was glad to have had an opportunity of helping missionaries and of obtaining in return their help to teach the natives Formerly he ill understood un-derstood the missionaries however I since that he had seen Livingstone he recognized him the type of a roble and spiritual manhood The real work of the missionary was hard his privations priva-tions great his worldy reward small In conclusion Stanley expressed the hope that the Congo country would soon be well supplied with missionaries and urged the society to be very care ful about the kind of men they sent out as missionaries to Africa Do not he said send young men without first having taught them the practical life necessary to success the same as you teach children you wish to live long dead missionaries are of no more value than other dead men Gordon dead is valueless If he had lived the civiliza tion of the Soudan which received its death blow in Gordons murder would have been dawning and would have seen the summer of civilization dawning in the interior of Africa |