You know the old story of how, when the missionaries came to Africa, we had the land and they had the Bible. Then they said, ‘Let us pray,’ and we dutifully shut our eyes, and when we said ‘Amen’ at the end and opened our eyes, why, they had the land and we had the Bible. That seems to have been a bad bargain. But we are forever indebted to those indomitable men and women from across the seas who brought us the glorious gospel of God’s love for us and who helped to educate us in their schools and colleges and who helped to improve our heath with the clinics and hospitals and health care they provided. We are forever grateful to them.
