3oo DA VID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. xiv. 



with ten thousand of His saints ; ' ye also shall appear 

 with Him in glory. He comes with them ; then they 

 are now with Him. I go to prepare a place for you ; 

 that where I am there ye may be also, to behold His 

 glory. Moses and Elias talked of the decease He should 

 accomplish at Jerusalem ; then they know what is going 

 on here on certain occasions. They had bodily organs 

 to hear and speak. For the first time in my life I feel 

 willing to die. — D. L." 



" May 19, 1862. — Vividly do I remember my first 

 passage down in 1856, passing Shupanga house without 

 landing, and looking at its red hills and white vales with 

 the impression that it was a beautiful spot. No sus- 

 picion glanced across my mind that there my loving wife 

 would be called to give up the ghost six years afterwards. 

 In some other spot I may have looked at, my own resting- 

 place may be allotted. I have often wished that it 

 might be in some far-off still deep forest, where I may 

 sleep sweetly till the resurrection morn, when the trump 

 of God will make all start up into the glorious and active 

 second existence. 



" 25th May. — Some of the histories of pious people in 

 the last century and previously, tell of clouds of religious 

 gloom, or of paroxysms of opposition and fierce rebellion 

 against God, which found vent in terrible expressions. 

 These were followed by great elevations of faith, and 

 reactions of confiding love, the results of divine influence 

 which carried the soul far above the region of the intellect 

 into that of direct spiritual intuition. This seems to 

 have been the experience of my dear Mary. She had a 

 strong presentiment of death being near. She said that 

 she would never have a house in this country. Taking 

 it to be despondency alone, I only joked, and now my 

 heart smites me that I did not talk seriously on that and 

 many things besides. 



" Slst May 1862. — The loss of my ever dear Mary lies 



