iv.] MISSIONARY RETROSPECT. 153 



for a deeper insight in detecting shams than others, but I 

 expected character, such as we imagine the primitive dis- 

 ciples had — and was disappointed. When, however, 1 

 passed on to the true heathen in the countries beyond the 

 sphere of missionary influence, and could compare the people 

 there with the Christian natives, I came to the conclusion 

 that, if the question were examined in the most rigidly 

 severe or scientific way, the change effected by the mission- 

 ary movement would be considered unquestionably great. 



" We cannot fairly compare these poor people with our- 

 selves, who have an atmosphere of Christianity and enlight- 

 ened public opinion, the growth of centuries, around us, to 

 influence our deportment; but let any one from the natural 

 and proper point of view behold the public morality of 

 Griqua Town, Kuruman, Likatlong, and other villages, and 

 remember what even London was a century ago, and he 

 must confess that the Christian mode of treating aborigines 

 is incomparably the best 1 ." 



He farther says that the latent effects of missions and 

 missionaries on savage people are very great indeed : " The 

 indirect benefits, which to a casual observer lie beneath the 

 surface and are inappreciable, in reference to the probable 

 wide diffusion of Christianity at some future time, are worth 

 all the money and labour that have been expended to pro- 

 duce them 2 ." 



When dwelling with the Makololo Dr Livingstone some- 

 times addressed 600 people at a time ; many of these were 

 oftentimes very attentive. Some would go away, and pray 

 to Jesus — ignorantly, perhaps — but still their heavenly 

 Father will accept of their devotions according to their light. 



It will be remembered how that Schwartz in India, and 

 other missionaries in various parts of the heathen world, 

 sometimes stopped wars between tribes and nations, and 

 feuds between families and individuals. 



1 Travels, pp. 107, ro8. s Ibid. p. 226. 



