. The story of Africa and its explorers. oheathenish superstitions and customs. Theyoung were not educated, and the hold ofthe C!hurch upon the older savages was fos-tered by an exercise of so-called miracles. Tothese explanations of the decay of Christianityin the Portuguese territories may be added thecruel punishments inflicted for the slightestdeviation from the rules of the Church, andthe demoralisation caused by the slave made it almost impossible for any teacherto impress those who daily practised, and whoAvere asked to practise, most abominable actsof cruelty and dishonesty.
. The story of Africa and its explorers. oheathenish superstitions and customs. Theyoung were not educated, and the hold ofthe C!hurch upon the older savages was fos-tered by an exercise of so-called miracles. Tothese explanations of the decay of Christianityin the Portuguese territories may be added thecruel punishments inflicted for the slightestdeviation from the rules of the Church, andthe demoralisation caused by the slave made it almost impossible for any teacherto impress those who daily practised, and whoAvere asked to practise, most abominable actsof cruelty and dishonesty. Natives whosechildren or whose relatives had just beenlocked up in a slavers barracoon, could scarcelylook with much kindness upon a church whosebishop had a marble chair placed upon thepier—as might be recently seen in Loanda—from which to bless the slave-ships lying inthe roads. We are speaking at present simply of theRoman Catholic missions as seen in the Por-tuguese territories. In other parts of Africa IIG THE 8TOBY OF MOHAMMEDAN JOLOFFS, GAMBIA. (From a Photograph dy the Rev. J. T. F. JlciUigeij.) tliey have been more successful. In manycases the efforts of the priests for the civil-isation of the natives deserve the utmostpraise; and in the Barbary States they weresometimes enrolled in the noble army ofmartyrs (p. 115). The Protestants did not enteron the missionary tield untilcomparatively late after theReformation. It could scarcelybe expected that the Guineatraders would receive mission-aries with any great warmth,since, if they preached honestly,the tenor of their discoursesmust necessarily have been in-imical to the staple trade of the country around them. However, in 1736, the Moraviansbegan work on the Gold after thirty years strugglewith the climate and the de-pressing influences against whichth-ey had daily to contend, the enterprise was entirely abandoned. Aboutthe middle of the eighteenth century theSociety for the Propagation of the Go
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