Identifier: everyboysbookofr00prot (find matches)
Title: Every boy's book of railways and steamships
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Protheroe, Ernest
Subjects: Railroads Steamboats
Publisher: London : Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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evangelists working with Whitemen and women in this great corner of the vine-yard. The Congo presents a vast region formissionary effort, and scores of devoted men andwomen are at work in regions that were un-explored thirty years ago. In Uganda one rejoicesto meet with thousands of black Christians withtheir own clergy and teachers. Here again theUganda Railway has rendered inestimable servicein opening up the country and giving the mis-sionaries easy access to a region that was formerlydifficult to reach. Upon the great rivers and lakesof Africa, too, missionary steamships have provedof inestimable value. The Cape to Cairo Railwaymay do for Africa what the transcontinental lineshave done for North America; easy communicationmeans progress and light in dark places. On Plate LXII is shown the missionarysteamer John Williams IV. The London Mis-sionary Society has missionaries working on sixdifferent groups of islands in the Pacific Ocean.The missionary ship takes them to and from their
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STEAM AIDS MISSIONS 357 stations; and carries food, clothing, buildingmaterials. Bibles and other books from one placeto another. As there is no regular service ofships between these islands, the work could notbe carried on without the missionary ship. The Societys first vessel was the Duff,which sailed from London in August, 1796, boundfor Otaheite. She left the missionaries at theirrespective stations and returned to England safely.The second voyage was less successful, for theDuff was captured by French privateers, andthe missionaries and crew escaped only after greathardships. The Messenger of Peace was builtat Raratonga by John Williams (the Apostle of theSouth Seas) with native help only. He used cocoa-nut fibre for oakum, bark for ropes, native matsfor sails, and wood for nails. In three years thelittle ship sailed nearly 4000 miles. In 1834John Williams came to England, and his workand adventures among the heathen aroused suchinterest that £4000 was raised, with which topurch

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