Twenty Year's in Khama's Country and Pioneering Among the Batauana of Lake Ngami (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V TRUMPET CALL TO THE HOME CHURCHES, WITH A TEN YEARS' RETROSPECT "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in My holy mountain."--Joel ii. I. "O Lord, revive Thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make it known."--Hab. iii. 2. "shoshong, May 1880. "T READ with pleasure the letter addressed A to the Directors by Mr. R. Arthington (a valued and life-long friend of the Society). Most heartily I unite in the wish 'that the whole Church ot Christ on earth would arise in her proper strength, ' and lay herself down upon her work, and especially 'leave no part unvisited with the Gospel.' This last is of great importance in the interests of the future welfare of our infant churches. "It is a point that has not received that full consideration which it needs, and which I believe it will yet receive. "If other missions are like our Bechuanaland mission, then there are, lying all over the mission field, numerous small places--villages and hamlets--and also, what is a more serious matter, many not inconsiderable towns, almost entirely, if not altogether, uncultivated. Such places left uncultivated by the Christian Church are not left uncultivated by the devil, and they become centres of evil, and are ready to burst up volcano-like and pour out a sudden curse, withering and blasting the patient labour of years. "We have recently had a sorrowful manifestation of this in and round the district of Kuruman. For if the devil is powerless to hold men's hearts where the Gospel is preached he can work his own will where he is left to himself, and he does not neglect his opportunity. He knows how to use it to the hurt, if not the destruction, of an infant Church. If he has been cast out of heaven he has not been cast out of the earth, and h...