142 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. vn. 



Before we set out with the chief on this journey, 

 it will be well to give a few extracts from Livingstone's 

 Journal, showing how unwearied were his efforts to teach 

 the people : — 



"Banks of Chobe, Sunday, May 15th. — Preached twice to about 

 sixty people. Very attentive. It is only divine power which can 



enlighten dark minds as these The people seem to receive 



ideas on divine subjects slowly. They listen, but never suppose that 

 the truths must become embodied in actual life. They will wait until 

 the chief becomes a Christian, and if he believes, then they refuse to 

 follow, — as was the case among the Bakwains. Procrastination seems 

 as powerful an instrument of deception here as elsewhere." 



"Sunday, 12th June. — A good and very attentive audience. We 

 introduce entirely new motives, and were these not perfectly adapted 

 for the human mind and heart by their divine Author, we should have 

 no success." 



" Sunday, l§th June. — A good and attentive audience, but immedi- 

 ately after the service I went to see a sick man, and when I returned 

 towards the Kotla, I found the Chief had retired into a hut to drink 

 beer ; and, as the custom is, about forty men were standing singing to 

 him, or, in other words, begging beer by that means. A minister who 

 had not seen so much pioneer service as I have done would have been 

 shocked to see so little effect produced by an earnest discourse con- 

 cerning the future judgment, but time must be given to allow the 

 truth to sink into the dark mind, and produce its effect. The earth 

 shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord — that is 

 enough. We can afford to work in faith, for Omnipotence is pledged 

 to fulfil the promise. The great mountains become a plain before the 

 Almighty arm. The poor Bushman, the most degraded of all Adam's 

 family, shall see His glory, and the dwellers in the wilderness shall 

 bow before Him. The obstacles to the coming of the Kingdom are 

 mighty, but come it will for all that : — 



' Then let us pray that come it may, 



As come it will for a' that, 

 That man to man the world o'er 

 Shall brothers be for a' that.' 



" The hard and cold unbelief which distinguished the last century, 

 and which is still aped by would-be philosophers in the present, would 

 sneer at our faith, and call it superstition, enthusiasm, etc. But were 

 we believers in human progress and no more, there must be a glorious 

 future for our world. Our dreams must come true, even though they 

 are no more than dreams. The world is rolling on to the golden 



age Discoveries and inventions are cumulative. Another 



century must present a totally different aspect from the present. And 

 when we view the state of the world and its advancing energies, in the 



