ABSTRACT
Missions in Central Africa deal with backward races who are in a different cultural cycle from the peoples of Asia, Europe or America. The universal communalism of Bantu tribal life gave small room for individual progress. In contrast with the Asiatic peoples who possess governments and social institutions to which the individual may look for protection, the African Native is powerless and without resource. In Africa the missionary is faced with the same question but finds a very different answer. The culture of the African is in danger of being submerged by European civilisation. African society requires a complete reconstruction in which the missionary must help the Native to make a multitude of readjustments. The task of modern African missions is not only to create a new social and spiritual order. The modern missionary is dealing with an African who is demonstrating his great latent and actual capacities and increasingly commands respect.
