The pro-Boer writer and anti-war activist, J.A. Hobson, argued in 1901 that
missionaries, with their “long-standing feud against Afrikaners”, were the
mainspring of the South African churches’ support for war against the ...
During the nineteenth century, southern Africa was one of the most active
missionary fields in the world, and the London Missionary Society (LMS) had
come to assume a leading role in the shaping of religious attitudes ...