No Vain Glory
+~ORGOTTEN MEN is the title of a new series of three BBC radid biographies beginning from 3YC on Wednesday, August 8, and 1YC on Friday, August 10, and to be heard later from other YC stations. The subjects are men _ who, going overseas from Britain, took the glery of their achieve ment for the chief reward of their exertion. They are Mountstuart Elp*instone, of India, Alexander McKay, of Uganda, and Sir George Taubman Goldie. the founder of Nigeria. In the history of British rule in India, Elphinstone emerges as one of the most engaging as well as one of the wisest figures. Early in the 19th century, after helping consclidate British possession in India, he wrote, "We must not dream of perpetual possession. A time of seéparation must come and it is for our interest to have an early separation ‘rom an educated people rather than a violent rupture with a backward nation." McKay was a talented young engineer who went out with the first Church Missionary Society Expedition to Central Africa in 1876. As well as trying to convert King Mtesa and his court to Christianity, he translated the Bible into their language, taught the young peonle to read, erected and worked a carpenter’s shop and smithy, dug wells and improved the villagers’ lot generally by using his engineering knowledge. And all this in the face of opposition from every quarter.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 887, 3 August 1956, Page 11
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235No Vain Glory New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 887, 3 August 1956, Page 11
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