. British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi. Natural history. MISSIONARIES 191 parody, as a natural relief), cant still exists, as can be seen by anyone who reads most missionary journals and hears many missionaries discourse. It exists ordinarily amongst the rawest and newest of missionaries and in the youngest of the missionary societies. In such missions as those of the Universities, the Church of Scotland and the Livingstonia Free Church, cant is extinct to a great extent locally, though it still lin
. British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi. Natural history. MISSIONARIES 191 parody, as a natural relief), cant still exists, as can be seen by anyone who reads most missionary journals and hears many missionaries discourse. It exists ordinarily amongst the rawest and newest of missionaries and in the youngest of the missionary societies. In such missions as those of the Universities, the Church of Scotland and the Livingstonia Free Church, cant is extinct to a great extent locally, though it still lingers in the home compilations, in the journals which professedly give an account of the work of these establishments and which are published for home consumption. Sincere friends of mission work, such as Robert Needham Cust and Canon Isaac Taylor, have at times expressed their wonder- ment that missionaries should think it right or necessary to attach to descriptions of their work given verbally or in writing such expressions of mawkish piety, and so many statements which are an insidious perversion of the truth. In the latter case I can only imagine it is done on the assumption once attributed to the Jesuits, that it is right to do evil that good may come: that the missionaries are as con- vinced as I am of the ultimate good they effect, and that to encourage the British public to find funds for the carrying on of such work they think it excus- able or even lawful to "gammon" them, if I may put it vulgarly, to repeat speeches of high-flown piety, on the part of savage and uncultured converts, which could not have been uttered with serious consciousness of their meaning, and, indeed, could never have been formulated from such poor arrested brains. Then again—especially in the case of newly-formed missionary societies who, in the rush of unreasoning enthusiasm have embarked on African evangelisation without counting the cost or making the necessary preparations —ar
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