Light in Africa (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Light in Africa<br><br>The following pages are a partial record of personal experience. The facts selected may not be the most interesting that might have been published, but they are those which seemed to give the most accurate idea of life and work in the African mission field.<br><br>The chapter on customs and habits is no more than an outline of a subject of engrossing interest. It is only when native life is fully understood that Europeans can enter into sympathy with those who are in a state of barbarism, and realise the value of Christianity and civilisation to them. True it is, that a certain class of men persist in the infatuation that the raw native is superior to the trained and educated one. It may be more easy for some men to get along with an untutored African; he takes more kindly to a kick than the educated man does, but the latter commands the higher wage in the labour market, and employers are a wise people.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.