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and civilization among the natives, would be a deadly blow at the very heart of Christianity—a prostitution of Christ’s clearest precepts to imperialistic politics and militarism.
German Missionary Endeavour.
Cold figures can give but a scant idea of the immense work performed by the German missionaries in the German colonies alone, exclusive of the many missions established for centuries in other colonies, but they may at least afford some conception of the extent of this work. The number of Head Mission Stations, both Protestant and Catholic, in the German Colonies at the beginning of the war, amounted to 465, the European workers to 1868, the natives baptized to 275,350, the native helpers to 129,469, the schools to 4621, and the pupils to 225,809.
The Rev. Cornelius H. Patton, D, D., Corresponding- Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, during the Africa Conference held in New York City on Nov. 20, 21, and 22, 1917, expressed, in connection with Germany’s African Missions, the only views and sentiments which are compatible with Christian tenets and an exalted conception of the problem :
“Africa cannot afford to lose the help of the German Societies which were established in various parts of the continent before the
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