Belgian Congo 41 CHRISTIANITY with 2,450 communicants, at a cost of ten million francs and of the lives of 50 of the 160 missionaries . The mission was specially noteworthy for the linguistic studies of Bentley and the explorations of Grenfell , who was especially selected by the Congo State to delimit in 1892–93 part of the Congo -Portuguese boundary. A slightly earlier arrival at the Congo was achieved by the Livingstone Inland Mission , represented byStrom and Craven, and supported by Dr. Guinness ; in 1884 it was handed over to the American Baptist Missionary Union , which by 1909 had 32 churches, with 5,000 adults and 7,000 children . Some, however, of the Swedish missionaries of the Inland Mission declined to accept the transfer, and attached themselves to the Svenska Mission (founded in 1881 ) . In 1909 they numbered 51 , with 1,800 adults and 5,000 children. In 1885 the Christian Missionary Alliance of New York began work ; in 1887 the Congo Balolo Mission was founded by a former member of the Inland Mission ; in 1890 the American Presbyterian Mission began work ; in 1896 the Christian Disciples Mission took over a station at Bolenge from the Baptist Union ; and minor work has been done by the Plymouth Brethren, who were early in the field , and by the Westcott Indepen dent Mission .

Roman Catholic Missions.In 1860 Livingstone had heard rumours of the persistence of the Christian faith at San Salvador, and in 1865 three emissaries of the Congrégation du Saint-Esprit sought to discover and revive these remains of the influence of Portugal, but their researches showed that the rumour which had reached Livingstone was ill-founded . In 1873 three fur ther emissaries established a mission at Landana near the mouth of the Shiloanga , and in 1877 they crossed the Congo to establish themselves in Santo Antonio ; 1 Masoin , Histoire, ii . 303-53 .