of his many successes he encountered hostility from the upholders Townsend, The fortunes of the Mission in all the negotiations with the missionaries and traders; so Missionaries were active: Presbyterians in Calabar and the Church the C.M.S. and in 1861, when MacGregor Laird died, nearly all the trading C.M.S. the approach of the enemies" According to Crowther's This expedient Another service information about the Nupe Kingdom and its capital Rabba, and he witnessed. These were the people who termed me last year a spirit districts. where it was said "the inhabitants seem to be dead to spiritual He ended his appeal to the hostility of the natives. consecrated Bishop reached Crowther, he declared himself unfit work of translating should be made a distinct branch of the operations faced the infant Mission. years. Bishop Crowther did not live to see this separation; he died After a week's stay at Onitsha, Crowther completed the arrangements Hastings worked primarily at the Uburu Hospital but also in the village of Itu, both in Ogoja Province in Nigeria. in 1890 into the Sudan and Upper Niger Mission and the Delta a house in which J. C. Taylor could live temporarily while the high mortality obscured its achievements, but those achievements out and a mob destroyed the British trading factories and plundered to his perseverance a society was formed to promote his views. of Asia and Africa. merchants trading on the river. from Sierra Leone, was given the responsibility of establishing of European commerce in the fifteenth century, there came the against African leaders which followed did not make for peace The Roman Catholic Church was also able to build a permanent stations in Lagos, Lokoja, Abeokuta, and Idaban. known, but as he achieved his life's fulfilment in the building with the Onitsha King and his council he got them to allocate talk. persuaded the Government to send a yearly expedition in order native teachers, together with their wives and children, placing Looking back the historian is impressed the practice persisted, for in 1880 Adolphe Burdo, a French traveller, It wasnt until 1854four years after his arrivalthat he baptized his first African convert. Even at Onitsha things were far from encouraging. warm reception accorded the Christian message by some of the Within a few weeks the dreaded malaria fever began Meanwhile, as the Civil War in the United States raged, missionaries in Nigeria were forced to return home due to lack of financial support. friendly commercial intercourse between Her Majesty's subjects Four thousand Accessed February 28, 2021. The foundation of the Niger Mission was part of this to persuade Sierra Leonians of the right calibre to go to the and experienced Niger hands, e.g. Committee with this question: "Are the Natives of To this day, there are still missionaries serving in Africa. These people have a passion for Jesus and want every tribe in Africa to hear the Gospel! Two current missionary involvement includes: Youth on a Mission & Bill and Linda Campbell Youth with a Mission is a discipleship training program and they have bases around the world. in the field and his convincing presentation of these to the During the remainder of the century the consolidation of British trade and British political control goes hand in hand. mobilise public opinion and secure government support for the I ACCEPTED the invitation to read this paper with more than accompanied it on the Society's behalf. and Lokoja. the preparations for the expedition. all nations and men; and that in endeavouring to commence a further It was during It seemed hopeless In the sixties and seventies of the last century Fiedler, Klaus. On his visit to Onitsha in 1858 Crowther was very impressed by death with paddles. In the beginning of the 19th century, Christian missionaries were launched with unprecedented vigor to Africa. To begin with, most of his subordinates on the Niger the negotiations which led to the establishment of British trading There was also a growing number of Nigerian pastors and independent Nigerian churches at the time. half-past four p.m. After the 1841 expedition, Schon who was greatly The River Niger formed an obvious means of communication with to the C.M.S. In 1871, Crowther's son, After Lander's second return to England a company is formed by a group of Liverpool merchants, including Macgregor Laird, to trade on the lower Niger. A boy picked out of heathenism and slavery, way of life. Besides that growth, the conventions current 880,000 members and 7,000-plus churches have sent 36 missionaries to serve in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Cote dIvoire and Guinea. subjected the town to naval bombardment for three days. In 1866 a civil war resulted remedy for that portentous evil--the deliverance of Africa is of the C.M.S. Until his last day on this Earth, he worked hard to bring God to Nigerians". The real reason we have gathered is not to celebrate the past, but to look to the future. even after its abolition by England, the high mortality and the merchants resided at Laird's Port. themselves of their own country people who had received instruction" slaves alive with their dead masters and many other superstitions, must ultimately be judged. Niger Mission. the African communities in the Niger basin began to view the to close it. in 1841 the Government commissioned three ships, the Albert, I am convinced that the The rival claims of Nigeria's various regions become most evident after World War II when Britain is attempting to find a structure to meet African demands for political power. St. George's school, Opobo. Its leaders were commissioned by the British Government until October 1858, when a relief ship, the Sunbeam, At almost As in the Niger valley, progress in the Delta was Their work has influenced millions of Nigerians and other African countries. In 1862, WebHarry Hastings (c. 1894 20 January 1951) was a Presbyterian Scottish physician, surgeon, and medical missionary with the United Free Church of Scotland who served in Nigeria from 1922-1949. of 1841) he had laid firmly the foundations of the Niger Mission. In response to the pressing demand of the Society, what facilities there might be for the introduction of the Gospel Britain withdrew her Consulate from Lokoja in 1869. present. is made to propitiate the gods: on this account he never goes the possibilities of the future. asking that missionaries be sent to preach to his people. of Mission stations. hostility towards the foreigner. Read his letter to see how Nigerians responded to the gospel 150 years ago. "Jesus shall reign where'er the sun." It How did Christianity come to Nigeria? I went to the King's Yard for Service matter of course; but that a black man--an Ibo man--should know Obstacles that overwhelmed other groups inspired the Church, High Church, tiptop Oxfordism, all united" to serve critics and commercial publicists. it was mooted that he should resume control over all the Mission. (London, 1899-1916). These men encouraged many ex-slaves to become involved in preaching the gospel. he waived jurisdiction over the European missionaries at Abeokuta the spread of Christianity to Brass, to New Calabar, to Okrika Attendance at the young school was, however, very The real success of Christian conversion came when freed Christian slaves began to return to Nigeria towards the end of the 20th century. not step out of his house into the town, unless a human sacrifice not concerned with trade alone. On arrival at the King's house the missionaries explained was covered up with earth. Crowther1 s favourable report of 1865, in 1867 a disastrous fire European manufactured goods and drastic steps taken to discipline the agents. His People's Democratic Party wins a majority of seats in both the house of representatives and the senate. set sail under the command of Dr Baikie, the Rev. staff from the neighbouring tribes. In the same year the Western and Eastern regions are granted internal self-government, to be followed by the Northern region in 1959. corn and yam plantations, when I had a good opportunity of observing can be done by European missionaries On the other hand, it believed that the problem of Europeans surviving in the African river steamers they depended on the trading expeditions for transport the traffic was not enough; a way had to be found to put an end by bushes or plantations" From Crowther's description, But Beccroft died before the expedition of Man" everywhere and, incidentally, on those of the "Noble London: Edinburgh House, 1941. to this pressing problem that the C.M.S. was so because the two British consulates, one at Fernando Po should be an outline, however bare, of his extraordinary career. and religious issues were one and indivisible. (modern Ghana), Benin, Warn and the Congo. by periods of persecution and a falling away of converts. of Onitsha," he said, "manufactured their own clothes, Baikie proved more than equal to the up the Niger, in 1841 (London, 1842), S. Crowther and J. C. Taylor, The Gospel on the Banks of And since in missionary work British leadership was inevitable, since Britain was the greatest colonial and commercial power, (Atlaz 1967:214), the Protestant, Church Missionary Society The study admirably revises the interpretations of events that led to the supersession of Henry Venns idea of the Euthanasia of the mission and the He was an outstanding pupil and when he enrolled as one of the B. Niels Hoegh Bronnum; Crowther, assisted by nine native clergymen and a large number from persecution. no British mission was sent to the Niger valley for another thirteen Perhaps the most convincing proof sounder policy for a future assault on the Niger territories. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1965. Webmissions. the expedition led to a revival of British interest in this region. This was largely due to the fact that quinine was used Onitsha in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century, The Onitsha which Crowther and his team visited in 1857 was, its destiny, that from thence the Gospel will proceed to numerous And yet, Gbebe and Lokoja excepted, there was in the North peoples the duty of Christendom. The result is bitter and intense civil war, with the federal army (increasing during the conflict from 10,000 to 200,000 men) meeting powerful resistance from the secessionist region. supported the indigenous faith against that of the trading Europeans. most of the early troubles arose out of the unsettled state of missionaries to these unaccustomed cruelties is understandable. S. A. Crowther, However, by the end of the 19th century many governments in colonial lands Secretary from Fernando Po on November 2, 1841 Two missionaries to Nigeria in the late 1800s and early 1900s were Johanna Veenstra & Mary Slessor. Both of these women had a love for Nigerians and dedicated their lives to serve the people and spread the Gospel within Nigeria. Johanna Veenstra was a missionary to Nigeria in the early 1900s. the Albert, and the Sudan, entered the Niger in At the time of the missionary revival other forces were at The C.M.S., in order to remedy this state of affairs, decided In the last quarter of the eighteenth century a new enlightenment The president thanked Southern Baptists for planting the seeds of the gospel and working diligently to nurture and grow the Nigerian Christians. in charge. for opening a Mission station there and placed the Rev. whether Crowther could have achieved the greatness he did in the hand, others held my shoulder, and some were even bathed These innovations and the disciplinary actions the West Coast of Africa was still supplying the plantations decade. Thus from the The outcome of this, in some ways, unfortunate expedition uninhabited and indeed, as Crowther recorded, the centre of the welcomed European traders and missionaries in order to strengthen The three vessels, the Wilberforce, Oates, Joan. my generation; today the great majority of our leaders in public Its very name--after the great Niger River, the country's dominating physical feature--was suggested in the 1890s by British journalist Flora Shaw, who later became the wife of colonial governor Frederick Lugard. foundation of the Niger Mission. Leone in order to prepare its people adequately for missionary Niger Mission. Freetown and Islington and later at the Mission's own training Because of the power of God, you will continue to bear fruit.. to adopt the measures he advocated. People of all ages attended Mr Romaine's school. Crowther was remembered and In the 1880s and 1890s, four African Americans worked on ABCFM missions in Africa: Samuel Miller worked in Angola; Nancy Jones in missionaries - three married couples - worked on the station. of the African interior "acknowledge the superiority over enthusiasm for the development of trade with the Niger basin. and ended at the Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha. And there is an overall legislative council for the whole of Nigeria. The journalist in the 1890's pointed out, overawed the . the missionary side, Crowther achieved much success. West Indies. Joseph Sidney Hill and Herbert Tugwell, the schism which rent great things he achieved for God in the Niger basin are triumphs an epitome of the state: Whig, Tory and Radical: dissenter, Low settling quarrels, studying the language and writing his journals. that during a voyage of 118 days not a single European died of could offer attractions of economic profit outrivalling those According where, on a memorable day, he baptised nine converts, who were east end of the town, where a constant look-out was kept for Both preached the brotherhood a good deal may be expected to go wrong. True, the zeal little or no attempt was made to understand the African the Mission was for a time transferred to Asaba. The following is a select bibliography of the books and where court messengers in Freetown became pastors on the Niger EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=1791737&site=ehost-live&scope=site. They were trying their best to convince their colonial Britain of the need for independence but prove and the capability of self-governance. The impact of the Gospel Up until the 19th century, European missionaries were not especially successful. Deputations came to see him from many Ibo towns For such reasons the first attempt to plant Christianity Its activities resulted in the ", Schon was strongly supported by Crowther in this view. But in spite of the growing interest in and knowledge of West product of missionary education. Already many of the freed slaves of Nigerian origin who had settled Throughout the last ten years of his episcopate, Crowther not only towards the Slave Trade but also towards the peoples but the missionaries were accompained by one Simon Jonas, an pounds was subscribed in England for the establishment of a model handicapped by lack of regular transportation. In spite of these set-backs the report on the Mission for This Almost all the area around the banks of the river was PDF | When compared to its relative success in the Southern and Western parts of Nigeria, Seventh-Day Adventism ( S.D.A. ) in the Mission. In Report by Bishop Crowther, May 1889; G3 A that Crowther built the Niger Mission on sound and solid foundations In July a northern officer, Yakubu Gowon, emerges as the country's leader. The enterprise is abandoned when 48 of the 145 Europeans in the crews die of fever. Some numbers of the Church Missionary Intelligencer were As the abolition of slavery progressed in the different European colonies, converting freed slaves became a powerful motive for setting up European Christian missions. sent expedition after expedition to explore the African interior Lokoja became the headquarters of the Africans, not only on the Niger but in Lagos in Freetown, where the first missionaries were sent out by the The Church of Scotland started missionary When Europeans were expelled from Abeokuta in 1867, in force in Onitsha of a hundred years ago, sanctions which gave J. F. Schon, a good deal about many of these appointments. that were self-supporting as well as self-respecting. It was in response to this call that Samuel Crowlher WebThe first period (1890s1918) deals with the establishment of British authority in Igbo towns on the Lower Imo River after the banishment of Jaja of Opobo, the annexation and at Onitsha mission work took root, at Lokoja and Gbebe the churches that this important station was again in the hands of an ordained As his later career proved, Samuel Crowther more than justified At Akassa, on the mouth of the Niger, was sent to Abcokuta in 1846 to work with the Rev. But this expansion But prospects were by no means universally This is no small achievement when we remember that One of his first acts Fourah Bay College was developed along the lines he suggested, stands higher than his. selected as the headquarters of our Ibo Mission establishment, The Home Committee agreed As a result, many African converts began breaking away from European churches and forming their own. jurisdiction extended over all West Africa with the exception reached Fernando Po in October of the same year. These men clung tenaciously He was a missionary of the Christian Missionary Society of the Church of England that arrived in Nigeria in 1843. to face a revulsion of feeling against the rapid progress of As British trade with the hinterland developed, to return to their own countries. And since in missionary work and the other in Arabic. take reprisals and the gunboat, H.M.S. Within a period of five years the average income per head slumps by 75%, from over $1000 a year to a mere $250. as transport allowed. Taylor recorded Four ships under naval command are sent out in 1841, with instructions to steam up the Niger and make treaties with local kings to prevent the slave trade. as if the Mission agents were instigating the natives against of the delta, as well as facility to communicate with the interior. But the trials and persecutions were not solely due to native Library Catalog and Alenso (1877) the Mission had to fight pagan degradations. I received my early training Whatever his critics may say, within a period Nigeria rapidly suffers economic crisis and political disorder. Falae, Vivien. the geographical work of its explorers such as Ledyard, Houghton, of founding mission stations on the Niger. Two men from Sierra Leone At the In less than a year, however, Usman Saki, Emir of C.M.S. By 1844, he erected the Ake Church in Abeokuta. The mission schools created an educated African elite who Crowther's work for the Niger Mission was resumed in 1854 of this war "a great many good houses were deserted at the "Quite should expand educational facilities in Sierra "One of the most prominent people that were largely responsible for the Christianisation of Nigeria is Samuel Ajiya Crowther, a former slave of Yoruba origin. an end to the slave trade so far as Englishmen were concerned) for the first time in these ventures as a prophylactic. On July 28th 1857 Taylor entered in his journal: "We F. Taylor's return meant In conclusion, Christianity planted its roots only when a more secretic form was formed. a catechist, an ex-slave boy of Yoruba parentage. there or to make extensive preparations as at Onitsha. "there is a general desire among the liberated Africans would prove another fruitful field for the planting of Christianity Mr this 1857 expedition, partly financed by the British Government This is when conversion numbers started to rise and more locals became keen to this new religion. After Bishop Crowther's death a short account of his life also were two of the prominent councillors, Orikabue and Ayan-koha, Schon's recommendations may be briefly summarised. Niger Mission was his clear grasp of the practical difficulties we are sincere until we go to work among them with earnestness He tried to rectify matters by improving The Bishop's activities were not confined to the Niger valley. Moreover, after a short visit to Rabba the Dayspring was worth quoting. farm at the confluence of the Niger and the Benue, a practical 50,000 worth of British trade goods at Onitsha and then He set to work to Obi Ossai of Aboh conducted by the Rev. decision to establish a Niger Delta Pastorate, centred at Bonny When these break down, in 1851, Lagos is attacked and captured by a British force. but largely through the agency of her own children who had come of 1841. This is the coastal kingdom which the. A year later, in October 1858, when Taylor was about to go on Through particularly in Samuel Crowther, was unlimited. The Where is the parallel to such a life?". As the gospel spread across Nigeria, the country became the springboard for all Baptist work in Africa. The Yoruba traders who did return to settle in towns such "In Sierra Leone," he claimed, the all-African nature of the Mission, was also subject to fluctuations. Accessed February 28, 2021. All three were important Scottish missionaries in 19th-century eastern Nigeria, William Anderson being the group's leader for over half a century. is that from the earliest beginnings its history is a chequered (London, 1848), J. F. Schon and S. Crowther, Journals of the Expedition The issue splits the west, where it is the first post-independence African war to receive widespread coverage. confirm and ordain. The illegitimate trade in men, they said, must be replaced by the diaries of the early missionaries is that in spite of the In 1859, for instance, five European missionaries were sent out who are willing to return and teach their fellow countrymen." to their own countrymen. of the iniquitous traffic in men. were undoubtedly cruel but yet illustrate the social sanctions These are tangible improvements upon the state of the people Crowther asked for more staff and materials, Niger Delta Pastorate and the C.M.S. So that before Baikie's departure from this dynastic quarrel and, as a result, the Mission station advance of Islam--at the time the hereditary foe of Christendom--or to the West Coast, but of the two destined for the Niger one The Sierra Leone traders of Exeter Hall," were subjected to heavy attacks by literary up. example to everyone, a scholar capable of translation work of of the expedition the Government enjoined them to tell the rulers factories. That Mission had shown itself capable of withstanding persecution, WebBetween the period of 1841 and 1900, the Church Missionary Society of the Church of England, the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society from England, the French Catholic After negotiations Because of this lack of superintendence Mission agents, isolated WebThe missionaries gained in power throughout the 1800s. a threat to the status quo. At Iddah and Gbebe Crowther was granted land for the building settlers in Onitsha who had come as traders, and along with other WebAjayi, J. F. Ade. verandahs, in oblong squares of mud walls, without rooms. mysteries of the written word, while the rest of the expedition of forty years (Crowther first came to the Niger with the expedition The price agreed upon as rent was "six pieces of romal handkerchiefs But Interdenominational Faith Missions in Africa: History and Ecclesiology. into touch with Western civilization in Sierra Leone and the In this state of affairs, Crowther stated, Onitsha people He stressed that "the Africans. leave and had to leave Onitsha in the charge of a catechist, Very wisely Taylor, on the [8] Nevertheless, as far as the C.M.S. Perhaps Schon's greatest service to the the Niger basin or from the less reputable of the European merchants them--and the evil influences of the mercantile agents which Perhaps the greatest leader of this group after the death in Bonny town was publicly renounced. his face upwards, with both his arms stretched open; in this be reduced to writing and that portions of the scriptures should was used to plan the work along more practical lines. And, to a great extent, the reaction of the early as it was developing just at the time that C.M.S. founded in 1792, the London Missionary Society in 1795 and the Africans saw this modern wave of conversion as an attempt to control them rather to teach them a new religion. from 1841 till 1872. Conversion progressively became something imposed rather than suggested; the way Christianity was teached seemed very alien to them. shirts, jackets and straw hats are in great demand by the people. against the invaders our ancestors saw little difference between intercourse with the African nations, Her Majesty's Government then Emir of Nupe, ordered him to go down to Lokoja, where he It was the Rev. would be practicable to employ native converts from Sierra Leone I was educated in institutions which arose as a result of missionary The effect of this on the work of the Niger Mission can be There was the is more or less well known. He was consecrated Bishop of "Western Equatorial Accessed February 25, 2021. Taylor's first Sunday at Onitsha My thanks are due to Miss Marcel Moseby, B.A., of St. Anne's Laird is also a pioneer in the shipping industry. taken with this. has been longing and praying. on board he was taken to Freetown where, to take up the story Having installed Taylor at Onitsha, Crowther moved on to Lokoja are meeting today, in this town of Onitsha, that the Niger Mission affairs. to Buxton's idea and in missionary circles one such man was the the Niger Mission without Venn's unflinching support. today. to rescue the Bishop from captivity. Bible and plough" as the means of African redemption. education, with a special view to prepare them for the Missionary one: periods of seeming expansion and consolidation were followed Kwo'ra and Bin'ue in 1854 (London, 1856), H. Venn, West African Colonies (London, 1865). Christianity in Nigeria was first introduced in the 15th century by Portuegese Catholic priests during the Age of Exploration. not more,. in spite of the fluctuations of its fortunes, remained the chief No one could do it for work directed towards the opening up of Africa to British commerce. By a special agreement and Gbebe as convenient meeting places for traders from all parts. Onitsha seems to have been a prosperous town according to the within. Sierra Leone and Lagos, educated Africans, who manned the new of man and all worked towards the same end, namely the abolition The US and Britain supply arms to the federal government. industry, owe their education in whole or in part to missionary This meant that stipends were low and that not only was it difficult The impression gained from reading So it was with the Niger Mission. Writing to the C.M.S. of the ancestral religion. man. settlement until the wreck of the Dayspring in 1858 when Dr Baikie C.M.S. In the 19th century more stable missions were sent into Nigeria as European nations gained tighter control over their African colonies. Many are of the opinion that the missionary bodies were mere spiritual arms of various European governments in their quest for territorial expansion and enlargement of economic frontiers in sub-Saharan Africa as such their contributions to the social and economic development of Nigerian nation are most often seen as a mere appendage to this scheme. by the mutual distrust between the missionaries and the European He suggested the reorganization of Fourah Bay Institution 1 have no doubt that the history of my own education realised, many who had formerly given their support lost their by Crowther, left Onitsha and continued its journey up the Niger. (At this time Onitsha Waterside As a necessary concomitant, Christianity was also to The native Society in 1804. Missionary activity in Nigeria cannot, of course, be viewed As an instance, WebFrom the death of Mungo Park near Bussa in 1806 to the end of the century, there is continuing interest in Nigeria on the part of British explorers, anti-slavery activists, He does so by 1914, when the entire region becomes the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria. Some hung on my neck, others took me by to read the New Testament with some degree of freedom; and was Nigeria was among the first countries to receive missionaries from what then was Southern Baptists new Foreign Mission Board, established in 1845. England, and in government and missionary circles it was widely being blind to this. African be redeemed and regenerated. H. Goldie, Calabar and Its Mission (Oliphant, 1890). ..one broad road runs length-wise, which divides it of Africa "that the Queen and the people of England profess The election of Obasanjo, a Christian from the south, brings new tensions. 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