Ebook African Missionary Heroes and Heroines

Were it but possible in the time and space that can be given to this book to write Of Stanley and Lavigerie the cardinal, Of Gordon and Rhodesia Rhodes, Of Bishop Hall and Hannington, Of Thornton, Pilkington, and Andrew Murray, Of Mary Kingsley, Mungo Park, and Samuel Baker, Of Rebman, Schoen and Klein, Of Barth and Nachtigal, of Denham, Junker, Overweg and Vogel, Of Browne, and Speke, and Grant, and van der Decken, Of Gordon Cumming, Arnot, Emin Pasha, of Madame Tinney, Schweinfurth and Selous, Of Bishop gobat and his Pilgrim Street to Abyssinia, Of chureh-fathers, Cyril, Cyprian, and Athanasius, Of Clement, Origen and Tertullian, and Of the greatest Of them — St. Augustine — and many more; for days, and months, and years, were one to write, and tell the tales — innumerable, thrilling — Of all these mighty men, whose names you see here on this page, we should have failed to mention most of Afric's heroes.