But When Forced By These And The Boers To Become Explorer,
And Open A New Country In The North Rather
Than set my face southward,
where missionaries are not needed, the gracious Spirit of God
influenced the minds of the
Heathen to regard me with favor;
the Divine hand is again perceived. Then I turned away westward
rather than in the opposite direction, chiefly from observing
that some native Portuguese, though influenced by the hope of a reward
from their government to cross the continent, had been obliged
to return from the east without accomplishing their object. Had I gone
at first in the eastern direction, which the course of the great Leeambye
seemed to invite, I should have come among the belligerents near Tete
when the war was raging at its height, instead of, as it happened,
when all was over. And again, when enabled to reach Loanda,
the resolution to do my duty by going back to Linyanti probably saved me
from the fate of my papers in the "Forerunner". And then, last of all,
this new country is partially opened to the sympathies of Christendom,
and I find that Sechele himself has, though unbidden by man,
been teaching his own people. In fact, he has been doing
all that I was prevented from doing, and I have been employed in exploring -
a work I had no previous intention of performing. I think that I see
the operation of the unseen hand in all this, and I humbly hope
that it will still guide me to do good in my day and generation in Africa.
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