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The Work of the Missionaries
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twenty-seven years ago. The next picture shows Henry Wright Duta, or, as he is generally known by the natives, Kitakule, another of the first six, and these two men have been constant readers ever since. Still another of that early band is living in the neighbourhood of Ngogwe, some thirty-four miles from Mengo. Since then great changes have passed over the land. One now never hears the drum being beaten to call people to war, nor is the drum heard announcing that a human sacrifice is about to be offered, and victims are being caught on the roads. In place of these are the drums beaten every morning calling people to worship in the House of God. There are scattered throughout Uganda over 1,100 churches, all connected with the Church Missionary Society. In these churches 52,000 worshippers assemble every Sunday, and probably half that number day by day come for reading and for instruction. It is not that the people had no other