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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 immeasurably. 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 actually 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 unconscious mission- 

 ary for good. 



At lunch, in addition to the missionaries and their wives 

 and children, there were half a dozen of the neighboring 

 settlers, with their families. It is always a good thing to see 

 the missionary and the settler working shoulder to shoulder. 

 Many 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 the missionaries and set- 

 tlers, of all ages, were bright and strong; those of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Hurlburt had not been out of the country for eight 

 years, and showed no ill effects whatever; on the contrary, I 



