Missions can proceed in two ways. One is the way of individual conversion with a period of instruction prior to baptism. In general this is the method used by Protestant missions under the evangelical movements of the nineteenth century, with their emphasis upon individual change of heart. The disadvantage of this method is that the Christian converts in a pagan culture become, by reason of their change in faith, uprooted from their own culture and compelled to move into an alien enclave. The other method is mass conversion, and it was this method that converted Europe. Kings like Clovis
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