Eighteen years in Uganda & East Africa . rules to beobserved by every inhabitant. The first of these rules was asfollows : Remembering that we have been put in trust of the Gospel,and that an account will be asked of us of that which we havereceived, it behoves the Council to see that the Gospel is preachedevery day in the villages of Giriama. This is the work of theChurch at Jilore. I found that the candidates for Confirmation (ten in number)had been thoroughly well prepared, and that they were lookingforward eagerly to the service, which had been arranged forAugust 15. It was with no little
Eighteen years in Uganda & East Africa . rules to beobserved by every inhabitant. The first of these rules was asfollows : Remembering that we have been put in trust of the Gospel,and that an account will be asked of us of that which we havereceived, it behoves the Council to see that the Gospel is preachedevery day in the villages of Giriama. This is the work of theChurch at Jilore. I found that the candidates for Confirmation (ten in number)had been thoroughly well prepared, and that they were lookingforward eagerly to the service, which had been arranged forAugust 15. It was with no little thankfulness that I heard thateach one of the eighteen confirmed on March 27, 1892, was livinga worthy and consistent life. An examination of the school, addresses to the band of evange-lists, the Confirmation, and visits to the neighbouring villages,occupied me very fully for the five days which I spent atJilore. On August 17 I started on my way to Rabai. I little thought,a« I said good-bye and thanked Mrs. Hooper for all her thought-. FROM THE LAKE TO THE SEA 137 ful kindness as my hostess, that I should never see her again inthe flesh, and yet so it was to be in the mysterious providenceof God. Six weeks later there came to me a telegram fromHooper with the simple words : Edith at rest. It told methat the end to a beautiful life on earth had come, and with ita call to higher service, I do not know that I can do betterthan transcribe what I wrote then in reporting to the great loss which the work had sustained by her death. Thewords are as true to-day as they were then : Humanly speaking, her loss is simply irreparable. No wordsof mine can truly tell what she was to the work out here. Hersaintliness and holiness of life impressed all with whom she camein contact. Her love and gentleness won the hearts of even themost unimpressionable. Her faithful witness to the truths ofthe Gospel has borne, and will yet bear, more fruit in the daysthat are to come. We are impover
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