"Nineteenth-century missionaries to West Africa packed their belongings in wooden coffins, never expecting to return to their homelands. They were short-term workers only in the sense that many of them died within a few years, some within months, of their arrival in that malaria-ridden region."
Stan Guthrie, Missions in The Third Millennium, pg 86. 2000, paternoster Press, )
"The selfless zeal of many of these missionaries often overshadowed the mistakes they made. Adlai Stevenson visited Africa during the 1950s. When asked what had most impressed him, he remarked, "The graves. The graves. At every mission station there were graves."
(Stan Guthrie, Missions in The Third Millennium, pg 136. 2000, paternoster Press, )
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