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CH. VIl] 
sionary work of the Kijabe kind will be an indispensable 
factor in the slow uplifting of the natives. 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 uncon¬ 
scious missionary for good. 
At lunch, in addition to the missionaries and their 
wives and children, there were half a dozen of the 
neighbouring 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 settlers, of all ages, were bright 
and strong ; those of Mr. and Mrs. Hurlburt had not 
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