Identifier: darkcallofcontin00walkrich (find matches)
Title: The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Walker, F. Deaville (Frank Deaville), b. 1878
Subjects: Missions -- Africa Methodist Church -- Missions
Publisher: London : Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ordinary evangelistic work trainedcatechists are necessary ; and there is theever-increasing importance of preparing awell-educated African ministry. In order to meet these needs we have inSouth Africa two well-equipped TrainingInstitutions. At Nengubo in MaShonaland,and at the Kilnerton Institution nearPretoria, teachers and evangelists areprepared for Christs service. The latterinstitution has (in connection with theNormal Department) a Practising Schoolwith about 100 boys and girls, so as toenable the normal students to get practicalexperience in the art of teaching. Thereis urgent need of a similar institution inWest Africa, where we are at presentcompelled to rely largely on untrainedteachers. For some years our Richmond College,Freetown, did splendid work under theprincipalship of the Rev. W. T. Balmer,B.A., B.D. But the urgent needs forsimilar work on the Gold Coast led theCommittee to transfer Mr. Balmer toCape Coast, where he founded theMfantsipim school for boys, which it is
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Methods of Work in Africa 263 hoped will develop, at no distant date,into a well-equipped training institution.Unfortunately, under the strain of thegreat work thrust upon him, Mr. Balmershealth gave way, and he has been com-pelled to return to England ; the school,however, continues its work. In theabsence of a Wesleyan institution, manyof our leading men are studying in theC.M.S. Fourah Bay College (affiliated tothe Durham University). At the presenttime, of twenty-four young men studyingfor the B.A. degree, six are Wesleyans. Our Kilnerton Institution has an im- industrialportant Industrial Department in whichMissionsyoung men are trained in carpentry andother trades, so as to be in a position toearn a satisfactory livelihood ; and girls areinstructed in such subjects as will be usefulto them in future life. Africa, more than any mission field,seems to call for industrial missions. Wehave noted the effect of such work in theefforts of Barnabas Shaw. At one time itbecame almost a pr

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