Obstacles to Missionary Success among the Heathen. An Essay which
obtained the Maitland Prize for the year 1867. By William Saumarez Smith. (Macmillan.)-In this essay we have a history of various attempts to disgust heathen nations with the principles of Christianity, while persuading or forcing them to embrace it. For many of these attempts the missionaries themselves have not been responsible. If Europeans go to a heathen country and set an example of the most vicious life, the heathen can hardly be expected to think much of the religion professed by Europeans. But people who go to those countries in order to make money are not likely to set a good example. This of itself would tend to defeat the efforts of Christian missionaries. Unfor- tunately, the missions have often been associated with persons of that stamp, and the mammon of unrighteousness has been appealed to with dis- astrous results. What these results are, and how they have been attained, will be clearly seen by reference to Mr. Saumarez Smith's essay.
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