Training for Service in Mission Lands (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Training for Service in Mission Lands More than one-half the human race can neither read nor write a word of any language. What a sad comment on 800, 000, 000 human beings created in Gods image and in whose lives are bound up the responsibilities of eternity. Africa. Of all the dark countries on the face of the earth Africa presents the most appalling picture. We are staggered at the size of the continent - more than three times as large as Europe and once and a half as large as all North America. It is as far around the coast of Africa as it is around the world. More than 800 languages and dialects are spoken in Africa, but none of them have ever been written down by the people themselves. There has been no attempt at education and most of them never know till the missionary comes that such a thing as writing has ever been invented. Picture a typical African home. It is a small mud hut with roof of thatch. Inside there are no tables or chairs. Low mud sofas with mats spread upon them serve as beds. An open fire of sticks smoulders in the middle of the earth floor, the smoke ascending into the rafters, clinging about the festoons of cobwebs and finding its way out slowly through the thatch. There are no pictures on the walls. There are no books or papers. No letters are ever written or received. From gray head to little child not one would know a single letter of the alphabet if they saw it. No sound of school bell or church bell is ever heard. Counting all the schools in Sierra Leone. which have been established by the missionaries, they are not sufficient to give even one child in a hundred a chance for even a primary education. The same illiterate conditions that prevail in family life are also true of national life. There are no histories other than verbal traditions and stories passed down from one generation to another. There are no legal documents, no official records and no written laws. The wisdom of the old men and customs popular through long observance are accepted as the law code of the people. They have no sacred book like other nations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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