Show SAD EXPERIENCE OF AN AFRICAN Missionary effort does not seem to have made a very favorable impression upon one Hemuhemu a native chief of Natal This autocrat has forbidden the open profession pro-fession of the Christian faith in his dominions do-minions on the ground that it demoralizes demor-alizes the women and leads the men to defy his authority A certain proselyte of the tribe by name Ngubane justified the latter part of this theory by bringing action ac-tion against his sovereign in the high I court claiming an Injunction a far a 1 can make out and damages for the loss of his spiritual consolation and privileges However In the interests of Christianity Mr Ngubane went to the court of appeals I and this time the chief was beaten The grounds of the judgment I am notable not-able to state It may be that the supreme court declined to entertain the proposition proposi-tion that Christianity leads to the demoralization de-moralization of women and the Insubordl i nation of men or it may bo that they held that Hemuhemu has no power to I interfere with the religious liberty of his subjects no matter how demoralizing the consequences Hemuhemu seems to have got an idea that the new woman is a part I I of the Christian faith Perhaps if his at I I tentlon were called to some of St Pauls I I remarks upon the position of the other I I sex he might be reconciled to Christianity i i Christian-ity yetLondon Truth I |