This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter ix. the victory of faith. "From all Thy saints in warfare, for all Thy saints at rest, To Thee, O blessed Jesu, all praises be addressed. Thou, Lord, didst win the battle, that they might conquerors be; Their crowns of living glory are lit with rays from Thee." Nelson. "the social advancement of Sierra Leone," says the Sixty-Seventh Annual Report of the Church Missionary Society, "is the triumph of' a great philanthropic and religious enterprize." The facts related in the preceding pages go far to prove the correctness of the foregoing statement. There are, it is true, some who have visited Sierra Leone, who have denied the success of the experiment, so far as the religious and social elevation of the people is concerned. The accounts given by missionaries, or those interested in missionary societies, are objected to by some parties as being partial and exaggerated reports of their achievements; although all who know the truth of the case bear testimony that missionaries far oftener understate than exaggerate the result of their labours. It is therefore satisfactory to be able to say that there is ample evidence of the truth of the statements made in the foregoing chapters to be found in the report of a Parliamentary Select Committee, which sat during the session of 1865, to investigate the condition of the West African colonies. That Committee was eminently impartial in its composition, and examined witnesses notoriously hostile to the negro race and to Christian missions, as well as those who were favourable. The Committee, at the close of its investigations, presented to the House the evidence they had received, together with a few recommendations. These documents have been printed in a Blue Book. They are too voluminous to...

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.