CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT MISSIONS 167 
is the higher one, but it does not take sufficient account 
of reahties. To make the work of training permanently 
successful, a firmly established church, which grows in a 
natural way with the increase in the number of Christian 
families, is necessary. The church history of every 
period teaches this. Is it not the weakness as well as 
the greatness of Protestantism that it means personal 
religion too much and church too little ? 
For the work which the American missionaries began 
here and the French have continued, I feel a hearty 
admiration. It has produced among the natives 
human and Christian characters which would convince 
the most decided opponents of missions as to what the 
teaching of Jesus can do for primitive man. But now 
we ought to have the men and the means to found more 
stations further inland, and so exert an educational 
influence on the natives before they are reached by 
the white man’s trade and the dangers and problems 
which it brings with it for the child of nature. 
WiU this be possible within a measurable time ? 
What will be the lot of mission work after the war ? 
How will the ruined peoples of Europe be able to 
contribute any longer the necessary means for the 
various spiritual undertakings in the world ? There is, 
also, this further difficulty^ — ^that mission work can only 
flourish when it is to some extent international ; but the 
war has made an3rthing international impossible for 
a long time. And, lastly, missions throughout the 
world will soon feel that, owing to the war, the white 
race has lost a great deal of its spiritual authority over 
the coloured ones. 
