The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-26

, notoriously bad. The orgies of his palace
 were so disgraceful that they cannot be printed and the people themselves were | glad when he was deposed, as they feared he would corrupt and wipe out the whole nation The British at last threw him from the throne and chose Daudi Chau, who was then a baby, as king. That
 was about F years ago and in the mean time the country has been ruled by this | boy, with a regency of natives and a
 council of the chiefs.
 How Stanley Introduced Christianity. It was Henry M Stanley who first brought Christianity into this part of the world He came out here in 1S75 and was well received by Mutesa. He urged the
 king to adopt the Christian religion trans
 lated the ten commandments and the Lords prayer for him and found him
 so interested that he sent a letter to the
 London Telegraph begging the English to send out missionaries. He spoke Of Uganda as the most promising field in the pagan world and advised the English to work it. This letter was sent to Eu- rope by way of the Nile. It was gwen to a Belgian messenger, but the Belgian was killed on his way down the river
 and a government expedition was sent out
 to find his remains. When they discov- cred the body StanIeys letter was still hidden In one of its boot legs. IL was . forwarded to Chinese Gordon at khar- tum and he sent it on to the London
 Telegraph. Three days after it was pub lished an anonymous gift of S25000 was offered to the Church Missionary Society of England to begin work in the Uganda field and $25, 900 more was added shortly thereafter As a result eight young men were sent to Zanzibar. and from there they came overland to Lake Victoria.
 Others came south by way of the Nile,
 and within a short time the work or christianzng this nation began in earn est
 Fifty Thousand Native Preachers. All this happened about 30 years ago, and now the Uganda people are prac- | tically Christians. Of course, there are 1 still many heather among them, but 1 think it Is safe to say that something like a million of these natives believe in | Christianity in one form or another Tn i addition to the Protestant movement, l which is by far the most important, and 1 which is under the auspices of the Church l Missionary Society of England, great l work has been done by the Cathohcs. l The White Fathers, a famous French de- l nomination, have native churches scat 1 tered over the country and large mis- l sion station here. The Mill Hill Mission, 1 also Catholic, and composed largely of 1 Irish priests, is doing a great work, hay | ing it's churches, hospitals and schools. | The converts of these two missions, usu- 1 ally marked by the little crosses which 1 they wear around their necks are to be l seen everywhere.
 l As to the work of the Protestants, it is | enormous. Archdeacon Walker, who is 1 at the head of the Church Mission So- l ciety here, tells me that the first con 1 verts were baptized just about 25 years l ago, and that today Uganda has 3Vt
 native Protestant churches and 200 native 1 evangelists, who are going about over l the country doing mission work. It has ] 50,000 native preachers, who are holding I regular services from week to week. Ihe l natives have built their own churches, | and they support their preachers.
 The people go to church; they hold l prayer meetings and many of them are 1 earnest Christians. They are called to :, church by the beating of a drum. They
 keep the Sabbath and on that day the 1 markets throughout the country are ] closed. The archdeacon says the rela- l olics are good and that the field is still large enough for all denominations. Said he: T am glad to have the Catholics do , what they can. We are all working to benefit the natives and we all believe in the creed, the Lords prayer and the 10 commandments" This mission work has to large extent abolished the savage customs common here in the past, slavery
 has been done away with and the king
 and chiefs cannot main or kill their sub-
 jects The natives as a rule have each
 but one wife and many of their children