But the way this poor lady was deceived is absolutely nothing to the way the men missionaries were taken in by their native Evangelists. Scoundrel is too mild a word to describe the voluble Elebi, who kept two wives though the guile-missionary believed he had one, told endless lies, had been arrested by Sanders, whipped and fined for breaking a man's arm.
"Hereafter Elebi_ had figured in certain English missionary circles as a Christian martyr for he had lied magnifidently, and his punishment hid been represented as a form of savage persecution."
I did once hear of a similar case when some so-called native Christians got into a brawl with some heathen, which they described as "persecution for the Gospel's sake," but once only and that happened in a disreputable German mission in China, whose leader was a man who had been dismissed from the C.LM. for misconduct.
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