The Position and Prospects of the Church in Africa

THE pages of the JOURNAL have in the past contained so many articles on the social, moral and political evolution of the native that I feel that I am making a new departure in drawing to the attention of its readers three recent publications containing the unified statement of the work of the Church overseas, its position, record and prospects. The first report issued early in 1933 was entitled, With One Accord. In 1934 appeared the World Wide Church, and last year was published The World Wide Witness, which is the subject of this review. They have been issued by the Press and Publications Board of the Church Assembly on behalf of the Missionary Council. The contents consist of eight Area Surveys of the Near East and Europe, Tropical Africa, South Africa, India, Burma and Ceylon, the Far East, Australasia, Canada and the West Indies and South America. It is in Area Surveys No. II and III that our interest as trustees of the natives' future is centred, and it is these which I shall endeavour to summarise and to

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