Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 7, 1909

If the Blind Lead the Blind

A LADY missionary of the Methodist Church, laboring in Angola, Africa, has this to say in reference to the work of Roman Catholic missionaries in that field:—

They do not help us much to enlighten the people here in Angola. At Malange, six miles from Quessua, they have a school and church. Among the trades taught is brewing. And a great quantity of beer is sold from this “religious” center. Some time ago one of the priests went through the country touring and teaching the people. He took with him large quantities of rum, of which the people are very fond, to entice them to his meeting. At one of these places a chief drank so much rum that he died in a short time from the effects of it.

This proves true again the declaration of our Saviour, that “if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”