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they have not yet done as much. No words can exaggerate 
the good work accomplished by the C. M. S. medical mis- 
sions in Uganda. No hospital anywhere in the European 
protectorates controlled by England, France, Italy, Ger- 
many, or Portugal, compares with that established by the 
two brothers, Doctors Cook and Mengo, so far as help to the 
native is concerned. Doctors and nurses, belonging to our 
own African Inland Mission, are pushing their way among 
quite unreached, unmissionized tribes, and are, wherever 
they go, a light in a dark place. 
But, putting on one side medical missionary work, the 
importance of industrial teaching has not yet been recog- 
nized. To teach large numbers of the East and Central 
Africans to read and write seems to me, to-day, to be of far 
less immediate value than to so educate them that they shall 
take a greater interest in the land they till, and the cattle 
they tend. I have spoken of native capacity for mechan- 
ical and industrial work elsewhere and need not now enlarge 
on it, but surely these industrial qualities must be roused up 
and educated if he is to hold his own. The yoke of his 
kings was a cruel yoke, but under it the Waganda had to 
toil. The coast Arabs drew their supply of slaves from the 
lands between the sea level country and the great lakes. 
Their discipline was at times cruel, but it gave the East 
African a master, for whom he fad to work. 
There is danger to-day of his becoming a masterless 
man, for no mastership could be so hurtful to him as his own. 
To save him he must be taught, not to read or write, such 
knowledge usually only makes him conceited and worth- 
less. He must be taught to work. 
Uganda is everywhere spoken of as the garden spot of 
missions. There the missionaries have immense influency 
as they well deserve to have. There is an important school 
in the hands of the C. M.S. at Mengo, the capital of Uganda. 
In it more than one hundred of the sons of the leading men 
