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often were they heard to say, “Why should the missionary 
have risked so much to save Nekibil? She is no relative of 
his, and yet he risked his life to save hers. The lotu [reli- 
gion] must be good.” 
From this time on a greater interest in the work of the 
mission was manifested, and the missionary was caused to 
rejoice in the manifest leading of God, who had made even 
the wrath of the murderous savage to praise Him, and had 
caused His servant to triumph in the midst of His enemies. 
Of these degraded people Mr. Brown soon after wrote: 
“These are the people who by God’s grace and help are to 
be raised from this savage state, and made into Christian 
men and women. As we witness their deeds of darkness, 
we can only stay ourselves on the declaration of God’s word, 
that ‘with God all things are possible.’ ”’ 
