An African Christian Family, Malawi, ca. 1875-ca. 1920

Photograph of an African Christian family. The father stands at the back pf the group dressed in a suit and tie and the rest of the family and grouped in front of him. There are a number of children of various ages.; This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to Dr Robert Laws (1851-1934) the Scottish Missionary. In 1875, inspired by David Livingstone (1813-1873), Laws travelled to Malawi and was involved in the foundation of the mission station of Livingstonia on the shores of Lake Nyasa. During the succeeding 50 years he also established a network of hundreds of schools. In 1908 Laws was elected moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland.