X. THE MISSION 
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will be many others who, just because they belong to 
the Church and find within it support in the dangers 
that surround them, become and remain loyal members 
of it. Thus the question of infant baptism, which so 
disturbed the Church in the early centuries, comes up 
again to-day in the mission field as a live issue. But if 
we wished to decide for infant baptism in the Ogowe 
district we should have in opposition to us nearly all 
the native evangelists and elders. 
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The most difficult problem in the mission field arises 
from the fact that evangelistic work has to be done 
under two banners, the Catholic and the Protestant. 
How much grander would be the work undertaken in 
the name of Jesus if this distinction did not exist, and 
there were never two churches working in competition. 
On the Ogowe, indeed, the missionaries of both bodies 
live in quite correct, sometimes in even friendly, 
relations with one another, but that does not remove 
the rivalry which confuses the native and hinders the 
spread of the Gospel. 
I often visit the Catholic mission stations in my 
capacity of doctor and so have been able to gather a 
fairly clear idea of the way in which they conduct their 
evangelistic work and their education. As to organisa- 
tion, their missions seem to me to be better managed 
than ours in several ways. If I had to distinguish 
between the aims which the two keep before them, I 
should say the Protestant mission puts in the first 
place the building up of Christian personalities, while 
the CathoUc has in mind before all else the estabhshment 
on solid foundations of a church. The former object 
