g2 JOURNEY WITHOUT MAPS

of yeast) was very like tea in an English cathedral
town; it was an English corner one could feel some
pride in: it was gentle, devout, child-like and un-
selfish, it didn't even know it was courageous. One
couldn't help comparing the manner of these nuns
living quite outside the limits of European protection
with that of the English in Freetown who had electric
light and refrigerators and frequent leave, who de-
spised the natives and pitied themselves.

A great deal of nonsense has been written about
missionaries. When they have not been described as
the servants of imperialists or commercial exploiters,
they have been regarded as sexually abnormal types
who are trying to convert a simple happy pagan
people to a European religion and stunt them with
European repressions. It seems to be forgotten that
Christianity is an Eastern religion to which Western
pagans have been quite successfully converted. Mis-
sionaries are not even given credit for logic, for if one
believes in Christianity at all, one must believe in its
universal validity. A Christian cannot believe in one
God for Europe and another God for Africa: the
importance of Semitic religion was that it did not
recognise one God for the East and another for the
West. The new paganism of the West, which prides
itself on being scientific, is often peculiarly neurotic.
Only a neurosis explains its sentimental lack of con-
sistency, the acceptance of the historic duty of the
Mohammedan to spread his faith by the sword and
the failure to accept the duty of a Christian to spread
his faith by teaching.

The missions in the interior of the Republic are, of
course, peculiar in being completely free from poli-