Africa's Redemption

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Excerpt from Africa's Redemption: A Discourse on African Colonization, in Its Missionary Aspects, and in Its Relation to Slavery and Abolition, Preached on Sabbath Morning, July 4th, 1852, in the Seventh Presbyterian Church, Penn Square, PhiladelphiaOf all foreign missionary fields, there is no one so calculated to stir the American heart as Africa. Africa is at the lowest degree in the scale of civiliza tion, and America is fast rising to the highest: a vast ocean rolls between them, they know but lit tle of each other, have less present intercommuni cation than most other nations, yet how intimate, how wonderful the conjunction between these ex tremes of civilization! That negro-slavery is an anomaly in American civilization, can hardly be denied, but that it is an anomaly in the world's p gress, no considerate mind will affirm. Potiphar bought Joseph of the Ishmaelites and made him his slave, but there was then instituted a relation, inti mate and interesting, and pregnant with vast and beneficent results. American Christians are com pelled to be cautious in speaking on this theme, and have directed their efforts more to some other por tion of heathendom than to Africa, but beneath this external reserve there is a tender and lively interest in all that pertains to the negro and the negro' fatherland, which will gradually work itself out into the grandest manifestations.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.