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of her as many Christian Englishmen think of their wives. She sits at table with him for meals, and together they eat with knives and forks and European table utensils generally. This is the result of Christianity. Polygamy was, and is, common amongst the heathen and Mohammedans. A Christian is married in church to one wife. Undoubtedly it is a very hard matter for a man who has had half a dozen wives to give them all up but one when he is baptized; but it is a remarkable and wonderful testimony to the power of Christ’s Gospel that such men receive strength to do this; and that strength is made perfect in weakness has been often borne out during the progress of the Gospel in Uganda. Unmarried men are not looked on with much respect in Uganda, and one boy quite decided that St. Paul must have been a married man, for, he said, ‘Otherwise he could never have obtained a seat on any council of the Jews. At least,’