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was taken very seriously by missions, - Lord Cranborne
announced to the Church Missionary Society centenary meeting
in 1899, - "Gentlemen we are proud of our Empire.. Sornotiren
we almost tremble at the weight of responsibility which in
upon us, and sometimes we view with a certain shrinking, the
necessary bloodshed which the expansion of Empire involves.
Can it be justified? Can this burden of responsibility be
defended? Only upon ono consideration: only because we
believe that by the genius of our people and by the purity
of our religion, we are able to confer benefits upon those
subject populations Greater than it has been Given by God
to any other nation to afford; and it is only because we
know that in the train of the British Government comes the
preaching of the Church of Christi that we are able to
defend the Empire of which wo are so proud. "
There was immense satisfaction in the progress brought
by British rule. Chamberlain remarked, "What is wanted for
Uganda is what Birmingham has Cott - an improvement scheme. "
A visitor to the Sudan vas delighted at the transformation
"Now at Aeoouen the Nile in tamed* A palace, college* hotels
und bungalows have unurpod the mud heaps of Khartoum; the oudd
has yielded to the white
an'n will and steamers pant fortnightly
past Lado Fort; bullock wagons astonish the rhinoceros of Wadolais
(1) E. Stockkq Hintor of the Church Ninoionar Society,
) ito
environment, ito men anditcwork* London I t, 99, Vol 4, 8.
p,
(2) J. Chamberlain, 'ori n and Colonial Spe hest P-136.
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