Baptism, Congo, ca. 1920-1930

Black and white lantern slide featuring a baptism in a body of water in the Congo. A European male missionary holds a Congolese man in readiness to immerse him in the water. Another male missionary stands to the side of the image with another Congolese man. The missionaries wear light shirts, shorts and pith helmets, and the Congolese men and women who queue to be baptised wear short cloth wraps around their waists, leaving their chests bare. This slide comes from a collection generated by missionaries working for the Congo Balolo Mission, a mission begun in 1889 under the supervision of the East London Training Institute for Home and Foreign Missions that developed into the interdenominational evangelical mission Regions Beyond Missionary Union after 1900.

本黑白玻璃幻灯影像记录了刚果某水域内的一场洗礼仪式。一名欧洲男性传教士正扶稳一名刚果男性，准备将其按入水中施洗。画面另一侧另有一名男性传教士与第二名刚果男性并肩而立。传教士们身着浅色衬衫与短裤，头戴遮阳盔（pith helmet）；排队等待受洗的刚果男女则以短布巾缠腰，袒露上身。该幻灯影像隶属于刚果巴洛洛传教团（Congo Balolo Mission）传教士留存的影像集。该传教团始建于1889年，由东伦敦国内外传教训练学院（East London Training Institute for Home and Foreign Missions）监管，后者于1900年后发展为跨教派福音传教机构——域外传教联盟（Regions Beyond Missionary Union）。