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Chapter IV
The Work of the Missionaries
When one considers the state of the Church in Uganda at the present day, it is difficult to realise that it was only thirty years ago, that is to say, in the year 1875, that Sir H. M. Stanley first visited Uganda, and was told by King Mtesa that he would like to have missionaries sent to his country. Our illustration will help us the better to realise this, for the man sitting on the chair is one of the first six men, or as they were then, boys, selected by King Mtesa to read with the first missionaries, Mackay and Smith, who did not arrive there till 1877 and 1878, roughly speaking,
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