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are sincerely Christian, and show their Christianity in 
practical fashion by putting conduct above ceremonial 
and dogma. Most fortunately, Protestant and Roman 
Catholic seem to be gradually working more and more 
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 Roman 
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 44 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 in¬ 
teresting 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 Christians themselves without outside assistance 
in either money or labour. 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 4 4 find the latch-string 
outside the door.” To an American who knows the 
country districts well the expression seems so natural 
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