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1860–1917 Nigeria
Mojola Agbebi (1860–1917) was a Nigerian Yoruba Baptist minister. He was formerly named David Brown Vincent, but during the wave of African nationalism in the late 1880s, he changed his name.
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What do you think of a religion which holds a bottle of gin in one hand and a Common Prayer in another?
The joys are one, Redemption is one, Christ is one, God is one, but our tongues are various and our styles innumerable.
Hymn-books are non-essentials to the preaching of Jesus Christ.
European Christianity is a dangerous thing.
According to the Apostle’s estimate, the preaching of Christ, the triumph of the Gospel, the success of practical righteousness is the essential thing; all others are non-essentials.
In the carrying out of the function of singing, therefore, let us always remember that we are Africans, and that we ought to sing African songs, and that in African style and fashion.
Among the great essentials of religion are that the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached unto them.
Prayer-books and hymn-books, harmonium-dedications, pew constructions, surpliced choir, the white man’s style, the white man’s name, the white man’s dress, are so many non-essentials, so many props and crutches affecting the religious manhood of the Christian African.
I would add, however, that at present the cultivation of cotton, the raising of rubber trees, of coffee, kola nuts, etc., the calling forth the riches of the soil, sanitation and the promotion of handicrafts form part of the pressing essentials of religion.
A religion which points with one hand to the skies, bidding you “lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,” and while you are looking up grasps all your worldly goods with the other hand, seizes your ancestral lands, labels your forests, and places your patrimony under inexplicable legislations?
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