Missions -- Uganda; Negrillos; Uganda -- Description and travel
Gospels and do not understand. Uganda to-day is calling out for European
missionaries more than it ever was, not to evangelise the heathen but to
organise, train and instruct the thousands of Christian men and women,
that they may be capable of taking their place among the civilised
nations of the world, and become a praise and a glory in their land.
It was through two young Baganda teachers that Christianity was first
carried into Toro in the year 1895. At that time the country was in a
very unsettled state. The King, Kasagama, had not long been established
on the throne, and his chiefs were not too eager to own allegiance to
him. Soon after the arrival of these two evangelists, Kasagama was
falsely accused before the British Officer in charge of the Government
Station there, and was thrown into the chain gang. On his release he was
advised to go into Mengo to the Government headquarters and have his case
gone into. His stay there ran into some months. During that time he was
deeply impressed by the change that Christianity had effected in Uganda,
and attended the Church classes daily that he might receive instruction.
When Her Majesty’s Commissioner had heard the charges and exonerated
Kasagama he was told to return to his Kingdom with full power ratified by
the British Government. Before leaving Uganda he begged Bishop Tucker to
be allowed to publicly confess his faith in Christ by Holy Baptism, and
asked that a European missionary might be sent to Toro to help him and
his people to increase in the wisdom of God. Meanwhile there was great
excitement in Toro when the people heard that their king, after such a
long absence, was coming back to them, and they collected together in
hundreds at the capital to welcome him. As he mounted the hill, leading
to his house, the people thronged him, dancing and screaming with joy and
poured into his courtyards. Then, standing up and ordering them to remain
quiet, he delivered his speech to them. He told of all the wonderful
things he had seen in Mengo, of his own confession of Christianity in
the Cathedral, and concluded by saying that he wished his country to go
forward in strength and wisdom, and this could only be obtained from
God, so he called on his people to believe in his God, to stand by him
faithfully in the united desire for the good of their country.
From that day the teachers had as much as they could do to instruct all
those who came forward to be taught; and when Bishop Tucker arrived there
the following year with Mr. Fisher, who was to establish a permanent
station, he found fifteen men and women ready for baptism.
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