Word: africa
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Todd of Amherst who has charge of the expedition to Africa to view the sun, has planned a system of pneumatic valves worked by electricity by which the photographic apparatus may be worked automatically during the total eclipse...
...thrift, and oppression only strengthened and developed that instinct. His character needs forming more than reforming. He has never fallen, because he has never had anywhere to fall from. The experience of the Negro in America has been a preparation for the redemption of his own race in Africa, and it is our work to complete that preparation. The training must be ethical. He learns rapidly and easily, but seldom lives highly. He must be trained in manhood, and herein is the field for missionary work...
...Koran, nevertheless, has a firm hold on millions of souls. Islam. although politically dead, is religiously alive. From Gibraltar to China, the religion of Mohammed is that of the masses. It spreads rapidly in Africa, not through the preaching of isolated missionaries, but by the influence of the Arab colonies scattered throughout the continent...
...Brown has decided to support a missionary in the Congo Valley, Africa. A member of the class of '89 has been chosen to go out next June...
...their author's age. and having greatly influenced Arabic literature in succeeding ages. they deserve the attention of every one who is interested in general literature or in the history of Islam-that religious system whose adherents are said to number two hundred millions, and whose rapid spread in Africa has been the cause of much earnest discussion, especially within the past year...