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the people of Uganda are now Christian, Protestant or 
Catholic; and many thousands among them are sincerely 
Christian and show their Christianity in practical fashion 
by putting conduct above ceremonial and dogma. Most 
fortunately, Protestant and Catholic seem now to be grow¬ 
ing to work in charity together, and to show rivalry only in 
healthy effort against the common foe; there is certainly 
enough evil in the world to offer a target at which all good 
men can direct their shafts, without expending them on 
one another. 
We visited the Church of England Mission, where we 
were received by Bishop Tucker, and the two Catholic 
Missions, where we were received by Bishops Hanlon and 
Streicher; we went through the churches and saw the 
schools with the pupils actually at work. In all the missions 
we were received with American and British flags and 
listened to the children singing the Star-spangled Banner. 
The Church of England Mission has been at work for a 
quarter of a century; what has been accomplished by Bishop 
Tucker and those associated with him makes one of the 
most interesting chapters in all recent missionary history, 
I saw the high-school, where the sons of the chiefs are 
being trained in large numbers for their future duties, and 
I was especially struck by the admirable Medical Mission, 
and by the handsome Cathedral, built by the native Chris¬ 
tians themselves without outside assistance in either money 
or labor. At dinner at Mr. Knowles’, Bishop Tucker gave 
us exceedingly interesting details of his past experiences 
in Uganda, and of the progress of the missionary work. 
He had been much amused by an American missionary 
who had urged him to visit America, saying that he would 
