New-York tribune., 1903-08-04


secretly to drop a root of casava before my door
the root from which comes our tapioca roasted
that root. and IL enabled to exc out my slender
supply Of provisions through these months o IN M Co.'s
OF ourselves. we find God there every time If we
are looking for him. ,.-,, =.
stay. I might do so if l would move across the
on the ~ " grnt ySbeTe two months before they
had sentenced death l might say had to
brick myself. They still kept up p petty persecu-
Ny native boy. or servant, came. and. standing
beside me said, Master have hit a native" |
was pouring stream Of blood over his face
you we're the one that got hit. What Is the mat
and ent ha rTer 0 the bed fTsF is f3 u Of They
ad E98dg to 10 m K me- us ali Iii him man He boKe his club over
my. head and got away" l said. VIII you go
Yes he said, u will go anywhere you Will 60 60
bes Went a f3 To oe o Tye nsvs anq or thirty Of
them There was no running water IN I tne river ~ at
mischief saw at once that either they or m9st 1;t
the arst thing that presented itself to my mind
leaped from the bank into the midst Of them Pc
1 could, asking them why they wanted to li klil
asked dd them af b5d II fad f2d veal for ueryhn
had got from them 9 asked them of If them 1 and
asfed 6FfaSf0 nothing 6hsin sSR 6T fRd IT, Hs4i'' man"
Gradually one after another who had his his spear pea
Another who had his arrow in his bow Withdrew
ay if they AGSe we're es subdued " MeanT e made
ay to Tfee tier h0 aqs bad ID e and sent 6 him out of
Then caught the ringleader of the band, whose
head the boy had cut open in their struggle and
pulled him over to the water, though he struggled
revenge upon him. The others were so awed and
must be in league with the spirits that they did
not attempt to stop me. pulled the man TO the
to battle his wound. In instant could see the
effect it had upon them 1t was new principle:
fhaNrn JTTTdr CfoT n TEnEr
kindness to my Own servant but Why snGula na b9 90
& S az ~. 10 my my. @ 7,Id Iot n1dar
stand. After having finished bathing his wounds |
up the wound and they followed me; thoroughly
me on had e cuS R 3fS With tem nno
The greatest difficulty Of all in c4nneGuon wen
from the multiplicity Of the languages. I had no
word of their language and no means of getting
ord as haG 1 a e.eF scbo 1eS Which means What is
@'u ~? And nd l fung that word at them pestered
them with it every possible occasion, and
eerey 70 for he Tep joed It down
I obtained a vocabulary and grammar OF the IAN
There was one word that 1t had taken me two
these NATIVES nif ' one ne little word but as days
months heightened into years. that word grew
and grew into mountain like proporI0ns ,,Dft DeIPFf
it in the face of the great need that It. en-
meet Until I discovered that key shall never
forget the thrill Of JOY that came to me ,i WHen
with my men about the campfire one evening,
listened to their stories, hoping against hope the
My head man began telling a story from which I
a friend OF mine, had been attacked by a hon some
time before this and had been badly W0andsa YOU tSo
means Of his rescue AS he began reag dra bs fi59
word now I don't see how he can get through II
without it," and listened. but he went through
the whole story without dropping any "oro coulu
construe to be the one had sought z.,
Sick at heart and disappointed for the thousandt9
time I was about to turn away when ne remarked
casually: THE master was saved by Yesu., could
Tcos Paxs asG%5sa pos 5G6 t had gained turned upon
him and began Questioning him, and finally as
.'Vecovi. this is the word have been wanting
vou to give me all of these many months. because
wanted to tell you that Yesu. the Son Of God
The II black face lit UP as he interrupted me in
the midst of my sentence, and I can see that face
SnII' 5 a., r. ~ me 'i excliming Master see it now
/ understand This is what you have been trying
US from the power Of sin" Never did sweeter
fall fo f % r ne s @ 9an f26 the ps Of t6a
black savage in Central Africa.
my Companions I had fever between thirty and
forty times; have several times been ambushed
by the natives. three times attacked by lions sew
eral times by. rhinoceri; for fourteen months |
nothing to eat but native beans and milk
had to eat everything from nuts to rhinoceri. Do
martyr, I enjoyed it; but let me say this, my
friends would gladly go through the whole , thing
the joy I had that night OF bringing that word
Saviour out Of the darkness of oblivion and fash
ing il into another tribe of Central Africa.
And do you know, there hundred, pos
siby, such tribes in the Dark Continent to-day with
out a written language, much less messenger of
the cross. The past year It has been my privilege
my great privilege TO reduce yet another one of
these languages to written form. | have at the
house a little roll which contains all there is in
existence, in tangible form, of the language of
million people
VICTIMS OF FAMINE
I said for fourteen months had no bread Az
the end Of this time ] raised a little crop of
wheat. put into the cultivation Of that wheat all
the energy born of fourteen months absence from
bread. and I assure you 1t wasn't a little I hoed
1t myself TO make every grain tell I 1t grow
up and head out and grow golden under the sun
light, II was beautiful sight to me 1t was
reaped a handful at time and beaten out with
stones.
! had nine ten bushels of beautiful grain
worth its weight In gold TO Visions Of bread
in plenty rose before my But another vision
came, vision Of great need that staggers
imagination For months I had been stumbling
over the dead bodies Of famine victims that lay
IN path and the wretChed relics came crawling
TO my station. They did not need to utter a word
Ah. my friends would to God could get rid
o. the notion OF missions and missionary organiza
tions and every human agency, and get clear
vision of Jesus Christ, and the whole problem OF
missionary finance and missionary workers would
be settled
T0RO R0RERTS MOT c0MTUc