But some people said we were fighting for equal rights; some said it was to insure good treatment for the natives; some thought we were Christianising the Boers; one man told me "the Boers wanted washing."

Into their curriculum there enters, as the American preacher hath it, a sensible regard for piety and pickles, flour and affection, the means of grace and good profits, crackers and faith, sincerity and onions, benevolence, cheese, integrity, potatoes, and wisdomall remarkably good in their way, and calculated, when well shaken up and applied, to Christianise anybody.

It might be God's plan for christianising England just now, but that was no reason, alas!

Their influence was the chief (I had almost said the only) civilising and Christianising influence at work on the lower orders of their own coloured people.

The same effect was produced by crusaders who came to help the Spaniards in their struggle against the Moors, and by foreign colonists who helped to Christianise the territories conquered from the Mohammedans.

I may best describe the object for which I plead, as an attempt to civilise and Christianise the women of the lower classes in the poorer districts of London and other great towns, by means of women of their own classwomen, who have gone through the same struggles as they have, and who will be trusted by them to understand and to sympathize with their needs and difficulties.