text:  The following is the satisfactory account of the Hottentot missionaries as to the moral effect of Christianity:-- "It is the unvarying statement of these missionaries deduced from the experience of a hundred years of patient service and laborious exertions among the rudest and most abject tribes of human beings; that the moral nature of man must be in the first instance quickened the conscience awakened and the better feelings of the heart aroused by the motives which Christianity brings with it before any improvement can be hoped for in the outward behaviour and social state; that the rudest savages have sufficient understanding to be susceptible of such a change; and that when it has once taken place all the blessings of civilization follow as a necessary result