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There is full recognition of the fact that industrial training 
is a foundation stone in the effort to raise ethical and moral 
standards. Industrial teaching must go hand in hand with 
moral teaching—and in both the mere force of example and 
the influence of firm, kindly sympathy and understanding, 
count immeasurably. There is further recognition of the 
fact that in such a country the missionary should either 
already know how to, or else at once learn how to, take the 
lead himself in all kinds of industrial and mechanical work. 
Finally the effort is made consistently to teach the native 
how to live a more comfortable, useful, and physically and 
morally cleanly life, not under white conditions, but under 
the conditions which he will actually have to face when he 
goes back to his people, to live among them, and, if things 
go well, to be in his turn a conscious or unconscious mission¬ 
ary for good. 
At lunch, in addition to the missionaries and their wives 
and children, there were half a dozen of the neighboring 
settlers, with their families. It is always a good thing to see 
the missionary and the settler working shoulder to shoulder. 
Many parts of East Africa can, and I believe will, be made 
into a White Man’s country; and the process will be helped, 
not hindered, by treating the black man well. At Kijabe, 
nearly under the equator, the beautiful scenery was almost 
northern in type; at night we needed blazing camp-fires 
and the days were as cool as September on Long Island or 
by the southern shores of the Great Lakes. It is a very 
healthy region; the children of the missionaries and set¬ 
tlers, of all ages, were bright and strong; those of Mr. and 
Mrs. Hurlburt had not been out of the country for eight 
years, and showed no ill effects whatever; on the contrary, I 
