ABSTRACT
The missionary may very probably be thoroughly imbued with the value of the “individualistic” system as opposed to the feudal system; many native customs connected with ceremonial pomp, abasement before a chief, and many other observances may well strike him as ridiculous, puerile and even degrading to the natives. Placed in similar circumstances, nine Europeans out of ten would have a much worse influence than the missionary in the very direction. A European trader, or especially a European barrister, planted in the middle of a big native town might have a more disintegrating effect than a mission station. When considering the work of the missionary in Africa one naturally turns also to education, a field in which he has expended so much labour and with such great results. From missionaries and education the mind naturally turns to slavery, a field where the missions have laboured so greatly and to good purpose.
