The African Repository (1872)

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340

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499 g

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: their enlightenment, upbuilding, and salvation. No nobler work could command the zeal and intellect of men, or even of angels; and may God bless whoever of ytm gives himself up to such generous Christian effort for the good of man ! . Tit is not altogether unlikely, however, that there are some among you who have not yet decided what you will do in tho great work of life, nor where you will employ the talents and acquirements God has given you. And, perhaps, because your minds are as yet in a state of suspense, you will be willing to listen to few words concerning the imminent needs and the vast importance of this great field, the continent of Africa. For in very deed now, as never before, and, in all likelihood, never again in all future periods, are the children of Africa in distant lands called to a consideration of the needs of Africa, and to the question of duty, with respect to their ability to meet those needs. And of these children of Africa abroad, American black men are, in many respects, among the foremost; in mental acuteness, in manly enterprise, in the spirit of energy and perseverance, which they have caught from their superiors; and in the intelligence and cultivation which, in the Providence of God, have been recently so liberally given them. In all these several respects the American black man is superior to his brother in many other quarters; and hence the claim and the call of Africa for his sympathy and his zeal for the redemption of that continent seems to be stronger and more urgent than upon any other of his brethren. This cause demands of them immediate attention. It is a claim which, from the very nature of the case, cannot be postponed to a future day. It comes just now with a peremptori- ness never before heard in all our history, and which a gene...

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