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85The obvious moral superiority of Christianity, backed by thesuperior political power of the British, broke through thechiefs' resistance and won the hearts of the Kuki people asa whole. The Kukis adopted Christianity and, urged on bythe missionaries, they abandoned many aspects of their nativeculture, astep that had both positive and negativeeffects.A positive aspect of the Christian impact on theKuki culture was that it provided a new world view throughthe message of the Gospel.A new life in the Lord JesusChrist has transformed the negative Kuki attitude towardslife and the world to apositive life of faith and hope forthe future. The Kukis were under the spell of the Indoireligion which believes in magic and spirits. Therefore,the lives of the Ku ki.s were controlled by fear of s oizi.ts ,The center of the Indoi religion is the Doibo m, ~v hen a Ku ki,became a Christian the Doibom was removed from the house; andthe pastor, along with his assistants, either burned ordestroyed it.With the destruction 0 f the Doibom, the manand his family were completely cut off from the traditionalcultural practices.All the observances of special days,festivals, taboos of the days, and works were given up.Thecultural laws and corn mandments which guided and controlledthe lives of the Kukis were removed.The difference betweenthe two ways of life is like what Paul said to theCorinthians, ". . • if anyone is in Christ, he is a ne wcreation; the old has gone, the new has corne" (2 Cor. 5: 17).