The controversy over the Kikuyu Conference still continues in the
correspondence columns of the Times. Having already fully stated our views on the points at issue, we do not propose to comment further on the subject, but may note the remark- able letters contributed by Lord George Hamilton and Sir Godfrey Lagden in Tuesday's issue. Lord George Hamilton shows how Mohammedanism wiped out the once flourishing and potent Christianity of North Africa because intolerant sectarianism and rancorous persecution had undermined and destroyed its powers of resistance. "The first time a really serious effort is made to secure unity of action between the different Protestant Churches in Central Africa the same spirit of narrow and blind sectarianism . . . again rears its head, again endeavours to facilitate the victory of united Mohammedanism over discordant Christianity." Sir Godfrey Lagden records the embarrassment he has felt when Christian natives have inquired why, if there was one Deity, one Bible, and religion was the common cause of all Christians they could not offer their prayers and receive means of grace in any and every place of Christian worship. Lack of sympathy and method, he maintains, must inevitably bewilder and estrange Christian converts and tend to promote Etbiopianism, which means more divisions and dissensions, to the detriment of all Christian effort. The letters of such laymen are, we are sure, of the utmost value in awakening academia disputants to the extent of the sacrifice demanded by the Moloch of Sacerdotalism.
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