Soldiering and Sport in Uganda 



Captain Lugard when employed in the Company's 

 service. He definitely changed the names of 

 English and French into Protestant and Roman 

 Catholic, and offered the latter the extensive 

 province of Buddu in which to labour without 

 interference. This offer was also accompanied by 

 far better terms than could possibly have been 

 expected, and were accordingly accepted by the 

 Roman Catholic party, by which peace was re- 

 stored between the two factions, who agreed there 

 and then to bury their past animosities, and who 

 have since worked zealously, each in his own sphere, 

 to do his utmost for the welfare of the native and 

 for the spread of Christianity. After the Pro- 

 tectorate was declared in 1894, territorial limits for 

 religions were abolished (see page 26). 



The above is a brief account of the turbulent 

 and precarious beginnings of the Uganda Mission, 

 which at the end of the year 19 10 totalled no less 

 than 74,000 native Christians, and is a living, 

 growing native Church. A calamity happened in 

 that year which only served to show the strength 

 of the Uganda Church ; the Cathedral of the 

 Mission at Namirembe in the native capital, Mengo, 

 close to Kampala, was struck by lightning and 

 burned. It has since then been rebuilt. An 

 illustration is given showing it after the fire had 

 destroyed it, all but the outside walls. No one can 

 read the full account of the heroic struggles of these 

 Christian natives in the face of such stupendous 

 difficulties, without granting them, in all true 



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