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Mortification sets m, and the patient dies from blood-poisoning. I 
should say antiseptic treatment generally is successful. Hence, you 
see, a box of antiseptic medicine would be a most valuable help to us. 
Of course there is always a means of help in sending a cheque to 
the Bible Society to cover cost and carriage of a load of books to be 
consigned either to the secretary or to some special missionary for 
judicious distribution amongst the poor. 
Our Sunday is over here as I write. In one small temporary 
church we have had a crowd-out — it is generally so. I divided 
the services with the liev. Niekodemo Sebwato, who, being a chief, 
was ordained by the bishop as a perpetual deacon last year. This 
afternoon he preached a capital sermon on “ Oh, Jerusalem, 
Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets!” The other native clergy- 
man stationed here has been away to-day at one of our out-stations ; he 
looks forward to taking priest’s orders when the bishop returns from 
the coast. We have full prayer-book services on Sundays, with 
exception of the Psalms, which we have not got yet in print. We have 
the whole New Testament; and towards the Old Testament, Genesis, 
Exodus, Psalms, Joshua, and Daniel have gone home. All these 
should reach us with the bishop at Christmas. After the morning 
service here on Sundays, we have a congregational prayer meeting, at 
which anyone prays ; it is quite informal. Week-day teaching goes 
on till 9 a.m. from an early hour, and then we have a short service 
which I take in turns for a week with the deacons. At this we go 
straight through the Gospels, expounding a short portion; this, with a 
hymn, creed, confession, and collects, lasts haif-an-bour. After this 
come classes. At present I am having a Bible class in Hebrews for 
the next hour, and then confirmation and baptism classes. All the 
baptism candidates first learn a short catechism, and none are enrolled 
as candidates before they have mastered it thoroughly ; then one of 
the synoptic Gospels is read, and they are examined in the subject 
matter and teaching of it. Then St. John is read, and another 
examination held, after which all satisfactory candidates are examined 
privately; and those finally accepted, after a little further instruction 
from the European missionary, are baptised. All the preliminary 
teaching is done by the native teachers, as also the examining in the 
Gospels. 
We are hoping in a few weeks to take possession of our new 
church — a fine building, which, with a crush, could hold 800 or 900. 
We are hoping great things from the newly formed Australian C. M. 
Association, and hope before long we shall have some Australian 
brethren in B Uganda. 
Extensive building operations are now going on in connection 
with our work here. We have found it advisable to move from our 
first site to a more central position. Since we settled here at the 
beginning of last year, the chief of this province has moved his head- 
quarters, and now is close to us ; he is the one I spoke of above as 
having been ordained a perpetual deacon. Besides the large church, 
mission premises are being put up. The B Uganda houses are exceed- 
ingly neat. Of course they excel most in their old-fashioned, bee- 
hived shape houses, but now for several years the chiefs have been 
building houses with roof and walls. The day is soon coming, I hope, 
when they will build mud and sun-dried brick houses — in fact, they are 
