THE MOST PRESSING MISSION QUESTION OF THE HOUR. | A new call from the Western Sudan has lately reached this country. Expressed in the subjoined appeals from Bishop Tugwell and Canon Sell, both working among Moslems, the latter in the W. Central Sudan, this call presents the most pressing missionary question of the hour.

“The Hausa and Nupe countries,” writes Bishop Tugwell, ‘are now open to the preachers of the Gospel. For many years earnest prayers have ascended from the lips of God’s people that the door to these countries might be opened. Thank God their prayers have been answered, and the door stands now, not ajar, but wide open. Oppression, tyranny, and the slave trade have received, we believe, their deith-blow, and an oppressed people are now free. But where is the army of occupation? The British force is in effective occupation : but what of the army of the Church of Christ? . . . Theve ave large heathen tvibes in the Hausa countries who ave longing for the advent of the Christian teacher.

BEGGING FOR CHRISTIAN TEACHERS.

The Guaris, with whom I came into contact three years ago, begged me to send them teachers. These tribes will become Mohammedan if they do not become Christian. 2=Dr, sell “has jrecentlyesan) that he vegards the evangelization of the Pagan Hausa tribes as the most urgent work of the Church of Christ at the present time.

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