THE BIG GAME OF AFRICA 



great need of Christianity. The teaching of Confucius, 

 among the wisest of non-Christian philosophers, has had 

 unHmited sway for twenty-five centuries ; and this highest 

 type of pagan ethics has produced a people the most su- 

 perstitious, and a government the most corrupt and ineffi- 

 cient. Confucianism must be pronounced a failure. The 

 hope of this people and its government is in Christianity." 



General Lew Wallace, the celebrated author of Ben- 

 Hur, formerly United States Minister to Turkey, testifies : 



" When I went to Turkey I was prejudiced against 

 missionaries, but my views of them and their work have 

 completely changed. I found them to be an admirable 

 body of men, doing a wonderful educational and civiliz- 

 ing work outside of their strictly religious work." 



Lord John Lawrence, perhaps the greatest of all Eng- 

 lish Viceroys, affirms : 



" Notwithstanding all that the English people have 

 done to benefit India, the missionaries have done more 

 than all other agencies combined." 



At a large public meeting in Calcutta, Sir Augustus 

 Rivers Thompson, then Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, 

 uttered these words : 



" In my judgment Christian missionaries have done 

 more real and lasting good to the people of India than all 

 other agencies combined. They have been the salt of the 

 country and the true savior of the Empire." 



General Sir Charles Warren, at the time Governor of 

 Natal, who was sent on a special mission of pacification 

 to Zululand and Bechuanaland, reported: 



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