4H THE LAND OF THE LION 



at the Colonial Office any settled policy regarding it, which 

 its governors and executive officers are ordered to pursue. 



Fairness, firmness, sympathetic knowledge, and a fixed 

 policy these are manifestly necessary to its well-being, 

 to the prosperity of its native population, or the success of 

 its white colonists. And these as yet East Africa has not had. 



But great and immediate as the need is to help the 

 native East African to acquire habits of industry, habits by 

 which alone he can climb out of savagery, by which alone he 

 can be made co-worker with the colonist, I should indeed be- 

 little Christian missions what they have accomplished and 

 what they aim to do were I to speak of them as only busy 

 in the endeavour to materially advance the black man's 

 status. He who "made of one blood all nations of men 

 for to dwell on all the face of the earth/' has ordained that 

 though man may not live or advance without toiling, yet 

 by toil alone he cannot grow to manhood's stature. Bread 

 is easily come by in most parts of Africa, and by bread and 

 bread alone, the native has, in his poor, downtrodden, 

 slavery-haunted state, been forced to live. But he is a 

 man, and as man has had need for, and right to, a higher 

 life, which cannot be lived by bread alone. For the seeds 

 of future manhood within him, for the signs and promises 

 of a better and higher life, who cares to-day ? 



Dwarfed and stunted as he is, few see promise or hope 

 of these things within him. The missionary does; in them 

 he believes; for them he waits. In their first faint spring- 

 ing he seeks and finds his exceeding great reward. 



African darkness in the past and in the present is the 

 darkness of a continent without ideals, a continent given 

 over to the vainest of all vain efforts, the effort to live with- 

 out ideals. In the face of such materialism, an abiding pro- 

 test against it, lives, teaches and dies the missionary. Some 

 smile on him as a visionary, a very few still slander him as 

 a self-seeker, but the men who see and know, the men 



