Seven Years Were Spent At Kolobeng
In Instructing My Friends There; But The Country Being Incapable Of Raising
Materials For Exportation, When The Boers Made Their Murderous Attack
And Scattered The Tribe For A Season, None Sympathized
Except A Few Christian Friends.
Had the people of Kolobeng
been in the habit of raising the raw materials of English commerce,
the outrage
Would have been felt in England; or, what is more likely
to have been the case, the people would have raised themselves in the scale
by barter, and have become, like the Basutos of Moshesh and people of Kuruman,
possessed of fire-arms, and the Boers would never have made the attack at all.
We ought to encourage the Africans to cultivate for our markets,
as the most effectual means, next to the Gospel, of their elevation.
It is in the hope of working out this idea that I propose
the formation of stations on the Zambesi beyond the Portuguese territory,
but having communication through them with the coast. A chain of stations
admitting of easy and speedy intercourse, such as might be formed
along the flank of the eastern ridge, would be in a favorable position
for carrying out the objects in view. The London Missionary Society
has resolved to have a station among the Makololo on the north bank,
and another on the south among the Matebele. The Church
- Wesleyan, Baptist, and that most energetic body, the Free Church -
could each find desirable locations among the Batoka and adjacent tribes.
The country is so extensive there is no fear of clashing.
All classes of Christians find that sectarian rancor soon dies out
when they are working together among and for the real heathen.
Only let the healthy locality be searched for and fixed upon,
and then there will be free scope to work in the same cause
in various directions, without that loss of men which the system of missions
on the unhealthy coasts entails.
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