Excerpt from Dawn in the Dark Continent: Or Africa and Its Missions, the Duff Missionary Lectures for 1902
This volume forms the sixth of the series of lectures delivered in connection with the Duff Missionary Lectureship, founded by one of the greatest of Indian missionaries - the Rev. Dr. Alexander Duff.
His son, Mr. Pirie Duff, carried out his father's wish that certain funds should be used for that object. Such lectures are delivered once in four years, and must be published within a given time thereafter.
The subject of the present course is African Missions. Missionary opinion is now less wanted, and is probably less valued than reliable missionary information. Intelligent laymen ask for information on which to form their own views on the success of missions. Hence the form into which some of the chapters in the middle of the volume have been cast. An attempt has been made to give brief sketches of some of the chief Missionary Societies, of their methods, and of the work they have accomplished in the African continent.
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