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Humility, patience and power to withstand the applause 

 of men for well-doing, are other desirable traits. 



"It was for the public of England now to do its part, 

 to give free scope to this great genius in the double work 

 of civilization and evangelization. They must have seen 

 how Dr Livingstone had successfully encountered all the 

 trials of adversity, fatigue, sickness, weariness, hope de- 

 ferred, peril of death. There yet remained one more trial, 

 to some the sorest of all, namely, that of comparative ease, 

 and the praise of all men. Believing, as the Missionary 

 Society did, that his faith in Christ is firmly fixed, they 

 doubted not but that he would go through this trial also 

 without fail; but they will, I trust, continue to offer up con- 

 stant prayers for him in his new and dangerous position, that 

 the blessing of the Almighty might still accompany him 1 ." 



There are other points on which the missionary has to 

 be kept from the evil, when surrounded by masses of people 

 without natural modesty, public law, private virtue, or 

 religious restraint. The following words of our traveller 

 will indicate some of these. 



" Although the Makololo were so confiding, the reader 

 must not imagine that they would be so to every individual 

 who might visit them. Much of my influence depended 

 upon the good name given me by the Bakwains, and that I 

 secured only through a long course of tolerably good con- 

 duct. No one ever gains much influence in this country 

 without purity and uprightness. The acts of a stranger 

 are keenly scrutinized by both young and old, and seldom 

 is the judgment pronounced, even by the heathen, unfair 

 or uncharitable. I have heard women speaking in admira- 

 tion of a white man, because he was pure, and never was 

 guilty of any secret immorality. Had he been, they would 

 have known it, and, untutored heathen though they be, 

 would have despised him in consequence. Secret vice 

 1 Lord Ebury's Speech on the same occasion. 



