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He has followed him even to the death. See the splendid 
bravery of the Waganda spearman at Lubwas’ boma. 
But he can no more understand his mental processes than 
he can change his soft, brownish black skin to the tint of 
his. Abraham was not sufficiently civilized to be a mono- 
gamist. I do not think the East African always is. Chris- 
tian missions, by insisting on a strictly monogamous state 
for all natives, as a prerequisite to membership in the 
Christian brotherhood, as well as by enforcing systematic 
doctrinal teaching, have often blocked their own path of 
access to the native, and have left, and are leaving, to 
Mohammedanism, millions of these people for whom a 
simple form of the Christian religion could accomplish 
what, of course, Mohammedanism never can. 
To the rapid advance of Mohammedanism I shall refer 
later. Here, as I said above, I only wish to state clearly 
at the outset what I believe to be the one cause above all 
others why Christianity advances slowly and Moham- 
medanism by leaps and bounds. Africa needs a very 
simple, very rudimentary Christianity. The African is 
incapable of understanding any other. (I have had no 
personal opportunity of judging of any missions other than 
those of East Africaand Uganda. To these, and these only, 
I refer, but generally speaking, what is true of East African 
missions is true of all missions on that continent.) Any 
religion for him is an immense advance. He is, in his 
native state, an atheist pure and simple. Christian mis- 
sions have been unable to offer him such a Christianity. 
Partly because our missionaries have not been trained to 
do this. Partly because they are bound too constantly by 
the laws of “‘ Medes and Persians” obtaining in missionary 
societies and directing committees at home. 
The Mohammedan missionary, on the other hand, has 
done what the European failed to do, and hence his phe- 
nomenal success. He has given the native as much as he 
