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dogmatic creed and an inability to see any good outside of it, they render themselves offensive and contemptible in the eyes of educated natives." Since coming to this country, I have been studying your educational, industrial and religious institutions and have endeavored to know how the missionaries and clergymen are made.here ; and when I take into consideration the ways in which they are manufactured, I sometimes think the Missionaries ought not to be censured so severely on account of the odious doctrines they propagate. I concede that some of them are frequently large-hearted and poius. but as a rule, they are narrow-minded and ignorant and are SO devoid of spirituality that they are unable to recognise spiritual ideas or truths under other names or forms than those they have learned in their schools and colleges. I admit that the missionaries are generally affectionate husbands and good parents of frequently large families, and had they remained at home uncontaminated by the elastic business-morality, they would have turned out good tradesman or faithfull clerks; but we know that in this age of competition and 'under a system of centralization of wealth and creation of monopolies, many persons are forced from thier natural spheres into the Church, open to them, and when there is a keen competition in the clerical ranks, an outlet must be found. for the surplus; it becomes therefore, requisite to create a market for
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