A New Lapsley: An Appeal for $25,000

Nashville: Forward Movement, Executive Committee Foreign Missions, 1904. Very Good. Four-page Leaflet. 17 cm. Later horizontal fold with modest splitting at both ends ot that fold. The Lapsley was a steamer used by this Presbyterian mission on the Congo river. The current steamer launched in 1901 and was caught in a whirlpool in 1903 leading to the death of "more than 23 missionaries and Africans" according to online information titled "Presbytery of Sheppards and Lapsley). A replacement was needed. This leaflet sought to promote the raising of $25,00 for a replacement. This appeal must have succeeded because the replacement was soon built in Scotland and dedicated there at the end of 1905. According to the online site, it lasted for more than 25 years on the Congo and its tributaries.