124 THE RELATION OF SCIENCE TO CHRISTIAN MISSIONS. 



feminine virtue, and has been attended with effects no less appalling 

 than sleeping sickness." 



Our lecturer also refers to the "part that even the poorest 

 religion has played in sustaining social bonds and affording sacred 

 sanctions for the crudest code of morality." 



With respect to morals I am an humble student of anthropology 

 and I fail to see why the natural evolution of morality from crude 

 beginnings should not fit as easily into modern conceptions of an 

 ultimate inspired revelation through Christ as physical evolution 

 has been made to do without destruction of Faith. I thoroughly 

 agree with our lecturer that a philosophical basis of morals is 

 unsuited as motive power alone. 



Mr. Baylis in reply said : I owe an apology to the meeting for 

 not making it clear that my quotation on the top of p. 116 from the 

 World's Missionary Conference Report only refers to the lower forms 

 of heathenism ; I do not think it would be fair, and it was not 

 intended, to apply it to all. 



The remark which the last speaker took exception to, as to 

 Christianity being the only religion which could become quite 

 supreme without limiting the field of science, is Professor Gwatkin's, 

 and I believe it to be perfectly true. It is impossible for all the 

 old religions of the East to hold their own in face of the progress of 

 modern science. 



I shall be happy to reply to Mr. Schwartz's strictures on the 

 work in Uganda by sending him full evidence direct from the field 

 which will correct his statements, and I hope satisfy him that 

 missions have been a real success there, as I have said. With 

 regard to another point he has raised I wish to say that so far from 

 monogamy being a failure in Uganda, the native parliament in 

 Uganda has passed a law requiring monogamy, and the first prosecu- 

 tions for bigamy have lately taken place. 



