The thoroughgoing effect of the Christian religion upon a black chief
of Africa is seen in the following account:
When, after many provocations, the crisis came, and
notwithstanding oft-repeated warnings, there was drunken
violence and uproar, the good Khama wore a stern face which
always meant fixt purpose. He went and saw with his own eyes how
his laws were trampled on, and then he said: “You despise my
laws because I am a black man. Well, if I am black, I am chief
of my own country, and I rule here and shall maintain my laws.
Go back to your own country. Take all that is yours, and go.
If there is any other white man who does not like my laws, let
him go, too. I am trying to lead my people to act according to
the Word of God, which we have received from you white people,
and you, white people, show them an example of wickedness such
as we never knew. You know that some of my own brothers have
learned to like the drink, and that I do not want them even to
see it that they may forget the habit; and yet you not only
bring it and offer it to them, but try to tempt me with it. I
make an end of it to-day. Go, leave my town, and never come
back!”--PIERSON, “The Miracles of Missions.”
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=Christianity in the Home=--See FAMILY RELIGION.