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The King and His People
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The attendance on Saturdays is smaller, as that is the day on which intending worshippers at church on Sundays must wash their clothes, not many people possessing more than one suit.

On Saturday mornings are held the meetings of the Church Council, which conducts the business of the Church of Uganda.

On Monday, classes are not held. It is the day on which all chiefs must visit the king, and attend the native parliament meeting. It is also the general time for visiting. Some missionaries are able to itinerate and conduct services on that day. Others are busy seeing teachers in from the country.

Or, if time allows, they make articles of household furniture, school apparatus, and meet other requirements, for in Uganda the amount of labour available for such purposes is extremely limited. A missionary, as a rule, has to be his own boot-mender, carpenter, hair-dresser, and