IS IT WORTH WHILE?
Is It Worth While ? (Universities' Mission to Central Africa.) —There is an illustration in this little book whioh of itself goes a long way towards proving the case. It shows the "Zanzibar Cathedral built by native labour on the site of the old slave market." A man may not care for Cathedrals and the objects for which they exist, but he can hardly deny what is implied by this "native labour" and the disappearance of the slave market, which in Zanzibar was hideously wicked beyond all its kind. Bishop Steers, while asserting the existence of native Christians who are really honest, sober, truthful, and chaste, allows that the "weaker brethren" are numerous. But even these, he declares, are bettor than their heathen neighbours. The scoffers at missions demand an average of morals in converts from heathenism which they do not see at home, and do not even attempt to keep to themselves. We warmly recommend this book to our readers.
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