reason or reflection, That a man should be anti-Christian and should de-
vote his pen to propagating his views is strictly within his right, and we
must not be understood as suggesting that the smallest reproach attaches
to such a person. But on the other hand, it is within the right of the
missionary to protest against being arraigned before judges habitually hostile
to him, and it is within the right of the public to scrutinize the
pronouncements of such judges with much suspicion.''


Charles Darwin did not hesitate to put the matter more
bluntly still. He will surely not be deemed a prejudiced witness,
but he plainly said of the traders and travellers who attack
missionaries:--


``It is useless to argue against such reasoners. I believe that,
disappointed in not finding the field of licentiousness quite so open as
formerly, they will not give credit to a morality which they do not wish to
practice, or to a religion which they undervalue or despise.''


These facts are a suggestive commentary on the popular notion
that civilization should precede Christianity. The Rev. Dr.
James Stewart, the veteran missionary of South Africa, says that
it is an ``unpleasant and startling statement, unfortunately
true, that contact with European nations seems always to have
resulted in further deterioration of the African races. . . .
Trade and commerce have been on the West Coast of Africa
for more than three centuries. What have they made of that
region? Some of its tribes are more hopeless, more sunken