and desires a change the brighter day is rising upon africa already i_letter seem to see her chains dissolved her desert plains red with harvest her abyssinia and her zululand the seats of science and religion reflecting the glory of the rising sun from the spires of their churches and universities her congo and her gambia whitened with commerce her crowded cities sending forth the hum of business and all her sons employed in advancing the victories of peace greater and more abiding than the spoils of war yes the