, 1908-04-18

lar act or line OF con luct was likely to cau3 80
grave danger to the public safety. That, he
was sure. they would all al Init, but, having
said this, he had entered the only caveat he
wished to enter. He had been asked to tell
them of what ne had seen and heard of mis-
sionary enterprise during his recent visit to
Uganda. He was not there to draw invidi-
Gus comparisons, but thus he wo i'd say
there was no spot under the Bri ish flag, or,
perhaps, IN the whole world, where mission
airy enterprise could be pointed to with more
assured conviction and satisfaction of it's
marvellous and beneficent results than III the
kingdom Of Uganda. (Cheers) There were
many parts where one found the official class
es inclined to view with anxiety or dislike
missionary activity. That was not so in
Uganda. All the way up the Uganda railway
there were to be seen naked, pagan savages,
people living their tribal life in the darkness
Of ignorance an | savagery, but on landing in
Uganda they found themselves in q new
world Que Of clothed, .well-maEnered, veil
organized people, and polite people. About
100000 Of them, SO he was told, were able
to read AM write, and nearly 100000 per-
hAps more, had embraced one form or anOth-
or OF Chris unity. And in embracing it they
had made what to them was q complete re-
versal of their former habits of life. They
had abandoned ~polygamy and adopted the
form of christian marriage. We had always
been told that there was an evil influence at
work which was likely to Gauge embarrass-
ment to the British Empire. He referred
to Exeter-hall. (Laughter) A great many
cheap sneers had been poured out on Exeter
hall by people with hot heads and, he was
inclined to think, with rather cold hearts.
(Hear, hear.) Breezy persons Of strong and
buoyant temperaments, but without great
reflective power, had waved aside what they
were pleased to call tho tin5el idellism and
cheap sentimentalism of Elk ter-hall. Exeter
Hall stood for certain ideals; it did not stand
for material or physica! force. Hear, hear Elk
eter-hall stood for, and came to be Identified
with, moral fOrce--mOral, phiIanthroplc, re
ligious, dislnterested, utterly fearless effort,
those other forces which bound together our
worldwide Empire in many lands. (Cheerg.)
Without thost forces we could not hold it
toge,h her TO" a score Of years without those
forces we never could have acquired it.
Exeter-hall had won Uganda. No doubt
many of thos3 listening to him were present
at that memorable meeting about IA or Is
years ago, when the necessary E15, 900
which was needed, he thought he was right,
for the purely secular administration of the
country in the interim period, was slbscr.b
et upon I'LL IMPULSE, u surge OF enbuuS|ASul,
in an incredibly short space OF ii ne. Vol
Exeter-hall was gone, but Uganda remained
(chpers), it remained, he believed, to be some
day the most progressive part Of the whole
of our East African, possibly of our d st nnd
West African, Empire. Exeter hall WAS gone;
its b icks an mortar AMI rubbla hpl been
carted away. EXeter-hall lay Wondering in
the grave, but its soul went m trching on
cloud cheers.( While that disinterested,
moral, philanthropic, and religious spirit was
lively and active at the heart of the British
Empire, all those tales that we heard of ma
tional degeneration and Imperial decay
might be dismissed as the vain and idle
chatter of the worldlings and weakIings, for
we might be sure while that earnest driving
force was at our disposal the British infu-
ence in the world would De Il kindly and
benignant influence for the subject races.
We should be found, wherever we were, try
ing to do justice in this world, and trying
also to poiut to more perfect justice in the
world to come. Cloud cheers. )-Ldld.
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