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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 milKons 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 



