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here at home. They teach because they are paid for it, say 

 both. In such circumstances ministrations are most difficult. 

 Despite these, and many other hindrances to the progress 

 of the Gospel in South Africa, still labour has not been in 

 vain, and strength has not been spent for nought. " The 

 wilderness has begun to blossom as the rose;" all these 

 heathen do not despise the day of their visitation. Additions 

 are being made to the church daily of such as shall be 

 saved. The degraded have been raised, the savage tamed. 

 " Those who have lien among the pots shall be as the wings 

 of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow 

 gold." These shall go in and out and find pasture in hea- 

 ven's kingdom of unfading glory. 



The Qualifications and Attainments necessary for the Suc- 

 cessful Missionary in South Africa. 



1 ' And he, trembling and astonished, said, Lord, what wilt thou have 

 me to do ?" — Acts ix. 6. 



"Depart ; for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles." — Acts 

 xxii. 21. 



" But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, 

 and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach 

 him among the heathen ; immediately I conferred not with flesh and 

 blood." — Gal. i. 15, 16. 



Dr Livingstone has been a successful missionary; and 

 since his main object in coming to Cambridge was to try to 

 influence some among us to become missionaries, we may 

 profitably attend to his ideas on this important head. 

 Already has he briefly discussed the topic 1 . 



Feeling convinced that many persons would like to 

 know his opinion on so great a subject as to the type of man 

 the best suited for a missionary in Africa, presupposing 

 spirituality of mind, and devotion of heart and soul to 

 God's service, in December last the Editor of this book 



1 Lecture II. p. 37. 



