Identifier: ourholidayinafri01whee (find matches)
Title: Our holiday in Africa
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Wheeler, W. W. (William Webb), b. 1854
Subjects: Wheeler, W. W. (William Webb), b. 1854
Publisher: (St. Joseph, MO : Press of Combe Printing)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s are much likelittle children, who hardly know right from wrong, and willfollow their tribal chief and do as he commands. As a gen-eral rule, they have very little conception of morality or hon-esty, until taught by the white man. They have very littlegratitude, small regard for their children, and none for theirparents or relatives when sick. Sometimes they throw theirsick relatives out of their huts to die, and leave their bodies tobe devoured by wild animals. Still more horrible to relate,after death from sickness or other cause, some of them cookand eat their own relatives. They ha\e no conception of God,unless their regard for witchcraft should be so considered.They do not worship idols, or have any other form of worship. There are many self-sacrificing missionaries in this coun-try, trying to teach and elevate these people. We believe thatthey are doing noble work, but the improvement is so slowthat it must be very discouraging. Many times these natives 6i OUR HOLIDAY IN AFRICA
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EAST COAST claim to believe in God, when they really have no conceptionof a Divine Being. There are many white residents of Africawho claim that the missionaries are doing no good, and thattheir converts are simply converts to get what they can fromthe missionary. It will, no donbt, be admitted by most of thethinking Christian people, that it is a problem as to what isbest to do for these, the lowest order of humanity. The ma-jority of opinion by Christian people living in Africa is thatit would be better to have the missionaries teach the natives towork, rather than reading and writing, and doing at all timesall things possible to open their minds to the Gospel, bypreaching and teaching that there is one God Almighty, andthat Jesus Christ died to save all that truly believe in Him. DOWN THE EAST COAST After waiting at Mombasa for several days we took asmall steamer, belonging to the British India line, bound downthe east coast of Africa with a cargo of rice from Bombay.We sailed out

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