Through Uganda to Mount Elgon . once in this quotationany answer necessary to Colonel Lamkins in-dictment of missionary work, and also theonly hope for the future. God grant thatthe Puritan revival may not be longdelayed ! I am also firmly convinced that the presentstagnation in the religious life of the people ofUganda is connected with the tendency to side-track the Church and its agents along the lineof secular education. There is an insatiable desire for knowledge onthe part of the Baganda, and they are peopleof undoubted intelligence, far more highly de-veloped than that of the surroundin
Through Uganda to Mount Elgon . once in this quotationany answer necessary to Colonel Lamkins in-dictment of missionary work, and also theonly hope for the future. God grant thatthe Puritan revival may not be longdelayed ! I am also firmly convinced that the presentstagnation in the religious life of the people ofUganda is connected with the tendency to side-track the Church and its agents along the lineof secular education. There is an insatiable desire for knowledge onthe part of the Baganda, and they are peopleof undoubted intelligence, far more highly de-veloped than that of the surrounding tribes ;and I recognise the need for such education aswill lead to the useful occupation of minds andbodies of such a people no longer given over toconstant warfare. Up to a certain point has given such education; for all its workin Uganda, whilst primarily evangelistic, has ofnecessity been educational of a very practicalcharacter; so much so, that not only has everycandidate for baptism learned to read, but I dare. »~ i^-4™ 205 Education and Evangelization 207 to say that had there been no church on the hillthere would have been no factory in the valley. In its High School at Mengo it has alsosought to meet on its own terms what seemsto me any need for higher education ; since itsteaching is of such a character that, althoughit is carried on amongst youths who have beenbaptized, it is definitely evangelistic. Frombeginning to end it is an effort to remove youngchiefs, and the sons of chiefs, from immoralsurroundings, and to strengthen their mentaland moral faculties through the influence ofGospel teaching. The tendency of the times, however, is todemand from the missions educational worknot primarily evangelistic, bvit such as willsupply the requisite number of clerks, cooks,and carpenters. There is no reason why missionary teachersshould not be used to give such training to theBaganda if they or the Administration pay forit, and thus allow for the provisio
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