The Christian Express2025-07-312025-07-311903http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11837/2998A hundred years ago or thereby there were no Protestant missions in Africa. During the century recently closed, and in the two years already gone of this new century, an ever-increasing missionary army has been gradually organised, great compared with the nothing of a hundred years ago, small compared with the Church at its back, infinitesimal when confronted with the huge task before it. At the beginning of a new year, it may be of interest to survey very briefly this army which is set in array against the forces of heathenism and Mohammedanism in the dark continent.en