While I Hope
To Continue The Same Cordial Co-Operation And Friendship
Which Have Always Characterized Our Intercourse, Various Reasons Induce Me
To Withdraw From Pecuniary Dependence On Any Society.
I have done something
for the heathen, but for an aged mother, who has still more sacred claims
than they, I have been able to do nothing, and a continuance of the connection
would be a perpetuation of my inability to make any provision
for her declining years.
In addition to "clergyman's sore throat",
which partially disabled me from the work, my father's death
imposed new obligations; and a fresh source of income having been opened to me
without my asking, I had no hesitation in accepting what would enable me
to fulfill my duty to my aged parent as well as to the heathen.
If the reader remembers the way in which I was led, while teaching
the Bakwains, to commence exploration, he will, I think,
recognize the hand of Providence. Anterior to that, when Mr. Moffat
began to give the Bible - the Magna Charta of all the rights and privileges
of modern civilization - to the Bechuanas, Sebituane went north,
and spread the language into which he was translating the sacred oracles
in a new region larger than France. Sebituane, at the same time,
rooted out hordes of bloody savages, among whom no white man
could have gone without leaving his skull to ornament some village.
He opened up the way for me - let us hope also for the Bible.
Then, again, while I was laboring at Kolobeng, seeing only
a small arc of the cycle of Providence, I could not understand it,
and felt inclined to ascribe our successive and prolonged droughts
to the wicked one.
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