4 02 THE LAND OF THE LION 



Waganda, was largely owing to the introduction into that 

 country of the age-long feud between Roman Catholic 

 and Protestant. One Christianity the Waganda and their 

 king could understand. It was the religion of the all- 

 powerful white man, and might be expected to do for 

 them what it had accomplished for these. But white man 

 attacking white man, Christian denouncing Christian, was 

 something astounding and inconceivable. A simple, under- 

 standable Christianity they were ready to heed and accept; 

 but how could they, their chiefs, or their king, decide 

 between two religions, both claiming to be the real religion 

 of Christ, the advocates of which were at each other's 

 throats. They naturally rejected both, and the whole land 

 came near falling into anarchy. 



It must be apparent to anyone that such divisions are 

 a prime cause of our failure as missionaries. But the full 

 extent of this evil of division can be evident to no one who 

 has not seen its results in heathen lands. The Christianity 

 of Western Europe cannot succeed as a missionary religion 

 till it is truly catholic. If it is to be a true world-religion, 

 it must go to the world as a world-religion, and not as an 

 "ism." Not as Roman Catholic, Protestant, or Greek, 

 but as Christian. The present situation in the mission 

 field the whole world over is ridiculous, deplorable, and 

 pathetic. Instead of an organized army fighting against 

 evil and ignorance, regiment supporting regiment, corps 

 aiding and acting with corps, all obeying a plan of cam- 

 paign, we have thousands of unrelated, undisciplined 

 squads and companies, guerrillas and volunteers, acknowl- 

 edging no leader, with no plan of action, powerless against 

 the enemy, and often bitterly hostile (as in the case of 

 Uganda) to each other. 



The Uganda missionaries are not to be specially blamed. 

 They proved themselves a noble band of men. They were 

 but the victims of our system. The wave of a national 



