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Uganda by Pen and Camera

some extent, this is the outcome of vanity, and a desire to show off; but it is to a far greater extent, in many cases, a desire to do something to show the love they have for their Saviour, when once they realise His love for them.

When Christ restored sight to the blind and performed other miracles, we are told that those receiving benefit desired to follow Him and to serve Him ; and this is so in Uganda. When a Buganda has received his sight and come out of darkness into light, as a rule, he desires to show his faith by his works. This has been especially marked in the way in which our attendance has increased in the school. In the early days we noticed an increase of more than a hundred after one Christmas holiday, and we found that many pupils had spent most of their holidays in telling others of what they had learned, with the result that their hearers were induced to come to