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Uganda Then and Now

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Aug 18, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 33.

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Uganda Then and Now

ON a hill near the cathedral, a quarter of a century ago, “thousands of innocent victims of the wrath and cruelty of former kings of Uganda would be slaughtered at a time. To this day, their bleached bones are to be seen in quantities all over the hill. There are many other similar old execution places to be seen in Uganda. It used to be the boast of the king and of all great chiefs that they had absolute power of life and death over their subjects, and that they could use it with unbridled license. To the rulers of Uganda the glory of their country consisted in the quantity of blood they were able to shed.”
The contrast seen to-day is certainly marvelous. The British Commissioner in Uganda has recently had a census taken of all the Church Missionary Society schools and churches within the protectorate; the enumeration covers 1,070 church buildings, having a seating capacity of 126,851, with an average Sunday attendance of 52,471. Let it be remembered that the first Christian baptism in this country took place only twenty years ago.—C. M. S. Gleaner.