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left to his. He must be trained, controlled, made to work, 
if necessary, for if this is not done he will surely perish 
from the earth. 
His land cannot remain forever dark and unknown. 
The growing world needs it; the multiplying hungry mouths 
of the race must call on Africa, sooner or later, to do its 
share in feeding them. Uncounted milhons can draw 
their subsistence from its rich soil and an abundance be 
left over for the African cultivator. 
These three considerations, then, should control and 
direct all civil and missionary enterprises in British East 
Africa. Having stated them, let me deal with them briefly 
one by one. 
I. Mr. Stanley’s expeditions in Africa had, speaking 
charitably, little of the missionary element about them. 
The natives called him “ Breaker of stones.”” His methods 
were often ruthless and bloody in the extreme. But when 
he outlined for Christian missions the course they should 
adopt, in order to benefit the Waganda, his summing up of 
the situation and of what it required, was admirable. He 
writes: “‘The practical Christian man who can teach the 
people how to become Christians; cure their diseases; 
construct dwellings; understand agriculture; turn his hand 
to anything; this is the man wanted. Tied to no church 
or sect; professing God and His Son; living a blameless life; 
inspired by liberal principles; with charity to all men and 
a devout faith in heaven. He must belong to no nation 
in particular, but to the entire white race.”’ As a sketch 
of an ideal missionary for East Africa this could not, I 
think, be improved upon. It reveals in Mr. Stanley a 
prescience quite extraordinary, and the dreadful calamities 
that for so long overwhelmed the Uganda mission, were 
just the inevitable results of the failure of modern missions 
to act on the common sense rules he so clearly laid down. 
The bloody turmoil that for years afflicted the unhappy 
