...but in reality he was just another evangelical hypocritical racist typical in the 19th century. There is nothing so special about this man that he should be so exalted as some great Christian, for his underlying ideology was as dogmatic as it was bigoted. For example he says, famously, "human hate is a deadly blight that does worse damage to the hater than to the hated". But then, in another text, he states: "Humanity must not, cannot, allow the incompetence, negligence, and laziness of the uncivilized peoples to leave idle indefinitely the wealth which God has confided to them". Really? If you can read this man's own words and still think he was some great champion of faith who embodied the life of Christ, you probably agree with the latter statement, in spite of the former... to which I can only say, to quote this "man of miracles" yet again: "hate in your heart will consume you too".