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sionary work of the Kijahe kind will be an indispensable 

 factor in the slow uplifting of the natives. There is full 

 recognition of the fact that industrial training is a 

 foundation stone in the effort to raise ethical and moral 

 standards. Industrial teaching must go hand in hand 

 with moral teaching — and in both the mere force of 

 example and the influence of firm, kindly sympathy and 

 understanding count inmieasurably. There is further 

 recognition of the fact that in such a country the 

 missionary should either already know how to, or else 

 at once learn how to, take the lead himself in all kinds 

 of industrial and mechanical work. Finally the effort 

 is made consistently to teach the native how to live a 

 more comfortable, useful, and physically and morally 

 cleanly life, not under white conditions, but under the 

 conditions which he will actualls' have to face when he 

 goes back to his people, to live among them, and, if 

 things go well, to be in his turn a conscious or uncon- 

 scious missionary for good. 



At lunch, in addition to the missionaries and their 

 wives and children, there were half a dozen of the 

 neighbouring settlers, with their families. It is always 

 a good thing to see the missionary and the settler 

 working shoulder to shoulder. iMany parts of East 

 Africa can, and I believe will, be made into a white 

 man's country ; and the process will be helped, not 

 hindered, by treating the black man well. At Kijabe, 

 nearly under the Equator, the beautiful scenery was 

 almost northern in type ; at night we needed blazing 

 camp-fires, and the days were as cool as September on 

 Long Island or by the southern shores of the Great 

 Lakes. It is a very healthy region ; the children of 

 j the missionaries and settlers, of all ages, were bright 

 and strong; those of Mr. and Mrs. Hurlburt had not 



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