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who hardly has time to buy his own coal, forgets that the man 

 who has volunteered to be his substitute under the command, 

 " Go ye into all the world," must add to the work of translating 

 or inventing a written language, teaching, preaching, travelling, 

 praying; the cultivation of his own garden, the duties of smith 

 and carpenter, the milking of cows, with the hundred and one 

 things not to be thought of except as they arise. Such was the 

 work on the hands of Dr. Livingstone, while every duty of his 

 had its corresponding duty for his wife. Then there are ever- 

 occurring acts of kindness, taxing mind and body, which the 

 noblest missionaries have considered a part of their duty. The 

 almost menial services for the natives, themselves unskilled in 

 the arts of comfort, are not a mean part of the work which falls 

 upon him. We must think of the great explorer passing back 

 and forth in the whole range of this extended sphere of activity, 

 from mending shoes to making Bibles, and ever cheerful and 

 resolute. We must see his noble wife gladly and proudly hold- 

 ing a hand with him in everything, if we would form a true 

 conception of the characters of the parties. And the man rises 

 loftily indeed in our appreciation, while we observe the dignity 

 and humility, the tenderness and the strength, the meekness 

 and the courage of his life. 



