terms of the new treaty has greatly upset all our congregations. Chiefs and their followers having been removed en masse to different parts of the country, and now a man no longer becomes a Christian because his chief is a Christian, for he need no longer remain the servant of a chief unless he wishes to do so, and there is not nearly so much to be looked for in the way of position as there used to be when a man became a Christian. The young Church of Uganda, started only twenty-nine years ago, needs very much prayer at the present time, that it may not fall away from its first love.
It must be remembered that it is practically only since 1890 that any settled work has been done; for in all the early part of Mwanga’s reign it was impossible to tell for two days at a time what attitude he would adopt towards the Church, and I need not say that his attitude was chiefly
