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married others in the meantime. He would then return, 

 and be admitted to the Lord's Supper, and teach his 

 people the knowledge he has acquired. He seems in- 

 capable of putting them away. He feels so attached to 

 them, and indeed we too feel much attached to most 

 of them. They are our best scholars, our constant friends. 

 We earnestly pray that they too may be enlightened by 

 the Spirit of God." 



The prayer regarding Sechele was answered soon. 

 Reviewing the year 1848 in a letter to the Directors, 

 Livingstone says : " An event that excited more open 

 enmity than any other was the profession of faith and 

 subsequent reception of the chief into the church." 



During the first years at Kolobeng, he received a long 

 letter from his younger brother Charles, then in the 

 United States, requesting him to use his influence with 

 the London Missionary Society that he might be sent as 

 a missionary to China. In writing to the Directors about 

 his brother, in reply to this request, Livingstone dis- 

 claimed all idea of influencing them except in so far as he 

 might be able to tell them facts. His brother's history 

 was very interesting. In 1839, when David Livingstone 

 was in England, Charles became earnest about religion, 

 influenced partly by the thought that as his brother, to 

 whom he was most warmly attached, was going abroad, 

 he might never see him again in this world, and therefore 

 he would prepare to meet him in the next. A strong 

 desire sprang up in his mind to obtain a liberal edu- 

 cation. Not having the means to get this at home, he 

 was advised by David to go to America, and endeavour 

 to obtain admission to one of the Colleges there where 

 the students support themselves by manual labour. To 

 help him in this, David sent him five pounds, which he 

 had just received from the Society, being the whole of 

 his quarter's allowance hi London. On landing at New 

 York, after selling his box and bed, Charles found his 



