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X. THE MISSION 
responsible for the unfavourable phenomena of intel- 
lectual emancipation. The young Christians have 
mostly been in our mission schools, and get into the 
difficult position which for the native is so often bound 
up with a school education. They think themselves 
too good for many kinds of work, and will no longer be 
treated as ordinary negroes. I have experienced this 
with some of my own boys. One of them, Atombogunjo 
by name, who was in the first class at N’Gomo, worked 
for me once during the school holidays. On the very 
first day, while he was washing up on the verandah, he 
stuck up a school book, open, before him. “ What a 
fine boy ! What keenness for learning ! ” said my wife. 
Ultimately, however, we found that the open school 
book meant something beyond a desire for knowledge ; 
it was also a symbol of independence intended to show 
us that the fifteen-year-old youth was too good for 
ordinary service, and was no longer willing to be treated 
as a mere “ boy,” like other “ boys.” Finally, I could 
stand his conceit no longer, and put him unceremoniously 
outside the door. 
Now in the colonies almost all schools are mission 
schools — ^the Governments establish hardly any, but 
leave the work to the missions — so that all the unhealthy 
phenomena which accompany intellectual emancipation 
show themselves among the scholars and are therefore 
put down as the fault of Christianity. The whites, 
however, often forget what they owe to the missions. 
Once, when, on board the steamer, the manager of a 
large company began to abuse the missions in my 
presence, I asked him : ” Where, then, did the black 
clerks and the black store employees who work for you, 
get their education ? To whom do you owe it that you 
