If Nathan Price represents Christianity as an instrument of colonialist oppression, Brother Fowles represents its true essence as a religion of love and peace. Though Fowles lives and works among the Congolese people as a missionary, he doesn't see them as needing to be bludgeoned into accepting Christianity. His overwhelming priority is to offer care and pastoral support to the indigenous people, whether or not they choose to become Christians. He does this with understanding, compassion, and respect. Whereas Price, on the other hand, has a fairly low opinion of the natives, seeing them as mired in savagery, ignorance, and superstition.

Brother Fowles looks at Christianity in substantive, rather than formal terms. It's the essence of the creed that matters for him, not the letter of the law. And it's that essence that he represents, demonstrating that Christianity need not be a prop for imperialist exploitation; that it can, on the contrary, be a force for good among the Congolese people through the carrying out of good works among the poor, downtrodden, and repressed.

And the Congolese people respond to the essence of Christianity as embodied by Brother Fowles, not by converting to the religion but through reciprocal acts of kindness, by giving Fowles and his family all the supplies that they need.