ABSTRACT
The normal organization of a mission is to have a head station with a European staff, and a number of out-stations, each of which is a school as well as a church, and has an evangelist teacher. By far the greater part of native education in Africa is in the hands of Christian missions. Accordingly, in view of the fact that the school is an evangelistic agency, and that it is for the Christianizing of the people that the missions are there at all, the moral life and character of the Europeans are of first importance even in the work of running a school. Roman Catholic missions are, of course, missions of celibates, and so, too, are missions of the Cowley Fathers, the Mirfield Community, and the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa. In a certain mission in Central Africa the “hospital” is a hut with an earth floor and a thatched roof, and the patients sleep on the floor.
