Methods of early Christian missionary work . en can we wonderthat it was impossible for the missionary to lay downrules which could cover all things? Each condition andeach circumstance presented some new obstacle whichneeded to be solved in a new way. It was not possiblefor the missionary to cry out against all these heathenpractices, for no doubt the success or Christianity duringthese years was in part due to the fact that he sacrificedsome things to gain the conridence and rriendship of hispeople* —oooo— 1. Sermon attributed to Saint Eloi- Migne 87 col., col., not consul
Methods of early Christian missionary work . en can we wonderthat it was impossible for the missionary to lay downrules which could cover all things? Each condition andeach circumstance presented some new obstacle whichneeded to be solved in a new way. It was not possiblefor the missionary to cry out against all these heathenpractices, for no doubt the success or Christianity duringthese years was in part due to the fact that he sacrificedsome things to gain the conridence and rriendship of hispeople* —oooo— 1. Sermon attributed to Saint Eloi- Migne 87 col., col., not consult diviners, sorcerers, enchanters, forany reason or malady- Do not observe auguries, orsneezing- When you go on a journey, do not think orthe songs of little birds. Let no Christian observeany day for going out or coming in. let no womanhang amber around her neck or invoke Minerva. Letno one have fear to do work during the new moon, forGrOd made the moon. tYacandard,Lf Idolatrie en Gaule In Revue des Questions Historiques v. 65, p. The question of idol worship was the one thing firmly opposed by the greater numoer of the missionaries. Possibly it is due to the fact that those who went from Ireland and Scotland and England had been so far removed from the Roman idol worship, thai; their opposition to it was perhaps stronger than of those who 1 went up from tne south, Gregory, who was a Koman and who had no doubt seen idol worship to such an extent that it had lost its blackness, sent word to the workers in Gaul that they must not take too violent measures against this pagan custom. The attitude, however, which the missionaries took toward the little things, the minor customs which were imbedded in the lives of the heathen people, is especially significant. The pope on one occasion wrote Augustine that he should destroy the idols within the temples, but not the temples themselves, for he considered it the duty of the missionary to use these for the glorification of God,
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