ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the history of Protestant missions and their use of workers and in the following two Catholic missions. David Lagergren argues tor a certain relationship between all Protestant missions on the basis of only one station, that of the ABMU at the equator. The workers of Protestant missionaries consisted of West Indians, Kru from Liberia, Loangos, Bangala, and children. Protestant missionaries were far ahead of all other whites in the use of printed material in the indigenous languages, and they were advanced also in training workers at the various presses. Protestant missionary work has generally been different from Catholic in stressing evangelization and the reading of the Bible. In pursuing this policy Protestants obviously needed to learn the people's languages and establish presses for the publication of Christian literature. Schools were by definition a means to lead people to more knowledge, by which they could improve themselves.
