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At School at Mengo
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and yet proving by their lives that they are neither Christians nor honest, and thus becoming a reproach to the Mission. We do not want to Anglicise the people at all, but we believe it is necessary to teach a number of them English; indeed, the Mission has been specially requested by the Administration to teach English in their schools. There is work for this people. God has some special purpose in view in having raised up the Baganda in the middle of Africa to take such an interest in the Gospel. It would seem that this object is, that they should become missionaries to all the surrounding nations.

This, indeed, the Baganda are quite willing to be, and have already been so to a limited extent; but before they can rule and govern their own Church, and learn how to make it self-supporting, self-governing, and self-extending, there must be some well-educated men amongst them. It is neither necessary