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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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till they remain but burnt-out lamps by the way, it does not
follow that the great Christian work of helping others is to
be abandoned, and hundreds of English men and women
asked to return home and acknowledge that the work to
which they had devoted their lives, and for which their fathers
before them had spent and often sacrificed their lives, was not
worth doing.
Surely the true spirit of the English nation is one of
sympathy with brave men who risk their lives as freely and
fearlessly as any soldier for what they believe to be the
good and right. Turn away those who have flagged by the
wayside, and show the contempt for them that they deserve;
but do not let the work of the true missionaries be allowed
to suffer and be despised because of these. Readers who have
followed me through these pages will have seen that good
work is being done by the missionaries in some places at
least, and let missionary enterprise be judged by the achieve-
ments of such men as these, and not simply of those who,
living on the fringes of civilization, enjoying all its luxuries
and comforts, and devoting but a fraction of their time to
true missionary work, have deserved the sneers which have
been thrown at them. These latter are the men who are
most commonly met with, and the real workers are usually
only seen by the few travellers who penetrate inland. But
it is no more right to judge by these faint-hearted ones of the
whole work done by missionaries, than it is to judge of an
army in the field by the men who, from physical unfitness or
known lack of energy, have been left behind at the base.
Nor should the work of missionaries be judged of by
statistics of converts. Statistics are utterly valueless in cases of
this sort. It is impossible to define, in the first place, what
a convert is. The usual idea is that a man becomes a convert
when he is baptized; but I have known a dying man baptized
without his knowing anything about it, and surely he could
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