in.] MORAL AND RELIGIOUS ASPECT. V>~> 



The native orators of the present day shew good speak- 

 ing talent : as well as no small amount of common sense, 

 and intellectual ability. 



What the African wants is education — elevation — fair 

 treatment, and, emphatically, Christianity: with these, he 

 will soon outshine many who now look down proudly on 

 him. 



Section IV. — Dr Livingstone s labours, explorations, and 

 discoveries considered as to their extent and results in 

 their Moral and Religious Aspect. 



"For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen." — Obad. 15. 

 " And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations."— 

 Eev. xxii. 2. 



In this concluding portion of our little volume it will be 

 well to review the Missionary bearing of the solution of the 

 great central South African problem. Man is the most 

 important object of our solicitude, whenever we want one 

 whereon to exercise our talents and benevolence. He pos- 

 sesses an immortal soul to be saved or lost. In this point 

 of view our traveller's labours and discoveries assume pro- 

 portions at once solemn, gigantic, and unspeakably import- 

 ant. Science, philosophy, literature and art all pale their 

 splendours and lose their worth when weighed in the 

 balances with the human soul. Other branches of our race 

 are now introduced to us. We are, and ought to be, anxious 

 about their moral and spiritual state ; these being topics of 

 eternal interest. 



In this Section the best course to adopt appears to be, 

 that of trying to produce a conviction of the need of Christian 

 training and instruction among these Africans ; and then to 

 shew what has been already done — what is being effected — 

 and what remains to be accomplished in these regions, with 

 reference to such training and instruction. 



