Eighteen years in Uganda and East Africa (1911) (14592524457)

Identifier: eighteenyearsinu00tuck (find matches)
Title: Eighteen years in Uganda & East Africa
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Tucker, Alfred Robert, 1849-1914
Subjects: Church of England Missions -- Africa, East Africa, East -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Edward Arnold
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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avy burden of work and responsibility resting on him, wasvery deep and real. It drew us nearer together. Trinity Sunday morning. May 28, the funeral service tookplace, and the remains of as gallant a soldier as could be foundin the British Army were laid in their last resting-place. This day, so sad and sorrowful in its beginning, is yet a daythat must be for ever associated with feelings of heartfelt grati-tude and thankfulness to God. Hardly had the echoes of thefarewell volley fired over the soldiers grave died away, whenthe great drum boomed out as the signal for the commencementof a service in which the first Deacons of the Church of Ugandawere solemnly set apart for their high and holy office. For a whole week the work of examination had been goingforward. Roscoe, Millar, Crabtree, and Hubbard were candi-dates for Priests Orders, and Henry Wright Duta, Yairo Mutak-yala, Yokana Mwira, Yonasani Kaidzi, Nikodemo Sebwato, andZakaria Kizito were the candidates for Deacons Orders. One
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EXTENSION AND CONSOLIDATION 129 other native candidate had been put forward, but I felt it wellto postpone his ordination to a future occasion. It was with feelings of the most profound gratitude to Godthat I took my allotted part in this service. As one afteranother of our native brethren came forward to receive thelaying on of hands, it was with diflficulty that one could restrainones emotion. These men, like some of the disciples in theearly days of the Church, were unlearned and ignorant, wise,however, in the things of God. They had been tested and triedin the fires of persecution, and had laboured for years in theservice of their Lord, without pay or earthly reward. And nowthe call had come to them to engage in higher service. And sothey were set apart to execute the office of Deacon in the Churchof God, committed unto them in the name of the Father, andof the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. At the afternoon service ten evangelists were publicly licensedfor their work. They had all b