Thinking black; 22 years without a break in the long grass of Central ...

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have drained our last drop of tea, and all the meaner
facilities of life have departed from our mud hut, we still
see Divine intent in it all. For God had only removed
the gilt from the gingerbread of our " white " prestige in
order to proclaim the poverty of the Cross. And this
mollified all our soreness. Christ's cause in Africa is too
often wounded in the house of its friends, but never so
grievously and gratuitously as when a Missionary of the
Cross beats easily all his fellow-Europeans in this matter
of first-class get up. The best houses, best furniture,
best eating, all at " The Mission."
Out towards the Atlantic Ocean our nearest shop is
just one thousand miles off".
One sacred calendar of mine contains the following
categoric and genuine gifts, '* nick of time " succour we
call this :
One woman—35 baskets of flour.
Another—25 baskets of flour, 4 baskets of green
vegetables.
Another—22 baskets of green vegetables, i.e. green
corn, cucumbers, pumpkins, etc.
Another—15 baskets of flour, etc.
Fifteen others might be added with totals of ten, nine,
eight, six and less baskets of flour, corn, etc.
"His methods are sublime,
His ways supremely kind ;
God never is before His time,
And never is behind."
And where is the man longing for apostolic pre-