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tradition of moral persuasion was strong, and home
supporters in spite of conspicuous lack of euccosa and a
high death rate due to disease in Africa, were extremely
optimistic. The history of the L. 1f. S* mission at Ujiji
of Lake Tanganyika illustrates the difficulties of an
African mission= in the period 1'7 to 1893, and after a
total cost of 440,000, ` only twenty converts had been made,
and of thirty nix missionaries sent out, eleven had died
and fourteen had retired due to-ill health after very brief
spells of service.
(1)
But the Tree Church Monthly
continued to assert "One cheering thing about modern
missions in Africa is this, that the difficulties encountered
do not dispirit the churches engaged, but only inspire
them with greater courage and devotion, " (2)
The departure
of G. M. S. missionaries for foreign fields-wee marked by
emotional and packed services at Exeter Hall. To call on
the help of British diplomacy or forcer would be to admit
the inadequacy of the Gospel alone, to dbtain conversions.
However by the 1880's new factors we beginning to
(1) Richard Lovett, Or citr ; p. 669.
(2) Free Church EMonthiv__nnct__11i
sslonnrv Record, November 1885,