Thinking black; 22 years without a break in the long grass of Central ...

VICE VERSA 205
Industrial Department, particularly, turns out a robust
type of pick-and-shovel Christian, and this healthy thing
has no doubt saved the land from a great reactionary
apostasy. Thanks to Livingstonia, the Garenganze got
its New Testament^ and teachers, and centred in Dr. Laws'
great enterprise are the hopes of wide Central Africa.
In a quaint old map of Africa, published in the guess-
work days of 1815, the only brilliant bit of work therein
was a true prophecy of Livingstonia. After creeping
cautiously round the African coast-line, the daring carto-
graphist put down his prophetic pen near Lake Nyassa, or
" Maravi " as it was then called, and wrote :
" Mountains
of Lupata, or the Spine of the World." Now, all this
was delightful, because authentic prophecy, for in the
long-subsequent Livingstonia that appeared in those
very latitudes, the word " backbone " is the keynote
of it all.
* Through the instrumentality of Dr. Laws, our Luban translation of the
New Testament was published by the National Bible Society of Scotland.