From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt. 
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 fortun¬ 
ately, Protestant and Cath¬ 
olic seem now to be growing 
to work in charity together, 
and to show rivalry only in 
healthy effort against the 
common foe; there is cer¬ 
of which have hitherto evolved any sub¬ 
stantial ethical basis—develop beyond the 
most primitive stage they tend, notably in 
middle and western Africa, to grow into 
malign creeds of unspeakable cruelty and 
immorality, with a bestial and revolting rit¬ 
ual and ceremonial. Even a poorly taught 
and imperfectly understood Christianity, 
with its underlying foundation of justice 
and mercy, represents an immeasurable 
advance on such a creed. 
Where, as in Uganda, the people are in¬ 
telligent and the missionaries unite disin¬ 
terestedness and zeal with common sense, 
the result is astounding. The majority of 
the people of Uganda are now Christian, 
tainly enough evil in the 
world to offer a target at 
which all good men can 
direct their shafts, with¬ 
out expending them on one another. 
We visited the Church of England Mis¬ 
sion, where we were received by Bishop 
Tucker, and the two Catholic Missions, 
where we were received by Bishops Han¬ 
lon and Streicher; we went through the 
churches and saw the schools with the pu¬ 
pils actually at work. In all the missions 
we were received with American and Brit¬ 
ish flags and listened to the children sing¬ 
ing “The Star-spangled Banner.” The 
Church of England Mission had 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 
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