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me good fellows, trained at——, who could conduct a 
Massai prayer meeting admirably, I] am sure, but they have 
no idea how to plough a bit of land, build a house, or take 
care of themselves, much less teach the ignorant and obsti- 
nate savage how to do these things.” It reminded me of 
what Mackay of Uganda, perhaps the greatest missionary 
that ever laboured there, wrote long before to England, when 
I was a young man. “Send us,” he said, “not university 
men who know Latin and Greek, but healthy, Christian 
ploughmen and blacksmiths — these are what we need 
in Uganda.” 
I greatly dislike to criticise the methods of these self- 
sacrificing men and women, who willingly give their all 
to save and uplift the black man, but I am forced to con- 
fess, that to me. the missionary plan of campaign seems 
mistaken in some important particulars. The native 1s 
not capable of benefiting by what is offered him; the offerer 
is not able, and sometimes not permitted, to offer anything 
else. Three things I would insist on: 
First: The native is only capable of understanding 
the very simplest of religious ideas. Protestant and Roman 
Catholic missionaries have not simplified the message 
enough for him. 
Second: He needs industrial education. As it is, the 
effort is everywhere being made, where there is any effort 
made at all, to give him a poor sort of English school 
training. 
Third: To advance at all he must be firmly, lovingly 
forced to work, kept at his job, for his one strongest defence 
against all civilization and religion is the fact that at heart 
he is a nomad still. 
I say he is necessary to Africa; his well-being spells 
Africa’s progress. Therefore, for that very reason, he must 
not be, cannot be, left to his own devices, any more than 
an ignorant and sometimes vicious child can be safely 
Apne orn ene ame 
RRS oe a 1? 
iH ee ee Satt Ss; 
