morally and socially, and rapidly becoming more commercially
valueless, than any tribes that may be found throughout the
whole of the continent. Mere commercial influence by its example
or its teaching during all that time has had little effect
on the cruelty and reckless shedding of blood and the human
sacrifices of the besotted paganism which still exists near that
coast.'' Of his experience in New Guinea, James Chalmers
declared:--``I have had twenty-one years' experience among
natives. I have lived with the Christian native, and I have
lived, and dined, and slept with cannibals. But I have never
yet met with a single man or woman, or with a single people,
that civilization without Christianity has civilized.''

Substantially similar statements might be made regarding
other lands.


``The more we open the world to what we call civilization, and the more
education we give it of the kind we call scientific, the greater are the
dangers to modern society, unless in some way we contrive to make all
the world better. Brigands armed with repeating rifles and supplied with
smokeless gunpowder are brigands still, but ten times more dangerous than
before. The vaste hordes of human beings in Asia and Africa, so long as
they are left in seclusion, are dangerous to their immediate neighbours;
but, when they have railroads, steamboats, tariffs, and machine guns, while
they retain their savage ideals and barbarous customs, they become dangerous
to all the rest of the world.''[30]

[30] Christian Register, December 3, 1903.