Missionaries are constantly emphasizing the horrors consequent
on the drink traffic among the natives of Africa. Bishop
Johnson, one of its able native bishops, declared that “European
commerce, weighted as this commerce has been for many years
with the liquor traffic, has been as great a curse to Africa,
a greater than the oceanic slave-trade.” Even still more
effective was a statement made by a Christian negro speaking to
an audience in England, when he brought out of a bag an ugly
idol and said, “This repulsive object is what we worshiped
in times past,” and then he added, “Now I will show you what
England has sent to be our god to-day,” and produced an empty
gin-bottle.--JESSE PAGE, “The Black Bishop.”
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