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Show Hundreds of Negro Missionaries Are. i Called to Serve! i 1 YONKERS, N. Y.. Nov. S Hun- dreds of negro students in Methodist theological seminaries throughout the 1 United Stales wore Invited today by J. N Ruffin, a member of the London J chamber of commerce, to volunteer as . missionaries for the Christianizallon of the Hottentots and Hereros and other black tribes in former German colonies in southwest Africa. Mr. Ruffin, speaking as a guest at the annual conference of tho board of foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal church, now In session here, intimated that the British government stood ready to finance educated American Amer-ican negroes who would go to Africa and help enlighten and uplift the blacks there. |