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thing, how complex a thing, how responsible a thing! God
has given us in our English Empire. And our Englich Empire
involvoo# remember# our English Christianity. "
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easily fitted into the role of carrying out the
divine'dentiny by spreading civilization and Christianity
to Africa. By the 1880'a they were starting to demand
that their efforts should be backed up by Imporialint
intervention. By i8889 the Free Church Monthly had
reached the conclusion, "The missionary w. « aunt make up
his mind to take-his life in his hands and go where the
Mantor cells him; but the interests involved here are not
mere missionary interests. The cause in that of civilization
and barberinm, of freedom against slavery, +. The question
is thus a much wider one than that of the maintenance of
our miocion at this point or that. It in nothing lens than
thing - In Arab and foha ednn inilucrne or England's and
German and Christian influa ne to prevail in Central Africa
It was felt that miacionarieu would be eater and more
successful if Imperial control were present to help break down
(1) Ch»reh I'll vsionnrv Intelli encer, July 98665
(2) Ergs Church 1onth1v
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