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Show AFRICA WILL BE CENTER Of WHITE CIVILIZATION, SAYS GREAT MISSIONARY side world and In that respect It may be compared to Japan. It now has begun be-gun to be opened, but it would have been better that its doors should have remained closed forever to the whites If it Is to receive only the harmful Influences In-fluences of the other continents. "At present Mohammedism is making more converts In the dark continent than Christianity, and it Is there that the last battle will be fought between the cross and the crescent. We Christians Chris-tians must do more than pray for the salvation of the Africans." CHICAGO, May 9. Bishop Joseph C. Hartzell, who is stationed in Africa, yesterday predicted a brilliant future for that continent. Speaking at the alumni reunion during the commencement commence-ment exercises of the Garrett Ribllcal institute in the First Methodist church. Evanston. he prophesied that Africa will some day be the great center of white civilization' "Fifty years," he declared, "will see Africa the great center of white civilization. civili-zation. It was with a purpose In view that It has been shut up from the out- |