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SECT. 



a life should be kept in view, rather than the romance or poetry 

 of ideal wanderings among wilds and savages, and philoso- 

 phic surveys of uncivilized and idolatrous life. At Kolobeng, 

 we find him helping to make a canal, preparing a garden, 

 and building his fourth house, with his own hands. A 

 native smith taught him to weld iron, while he had become 

 handy in carpentering, gardening, and almost every trade. 

 As his wife could make candles, soap, and clothes, they 

 came nearly up to what may be considered as indispensable 

 in the complete accomplishments of a missionary family in 

 south central Africa 1 . 



It is commonly agreed among missionaries and oriental 

 travellers, that Europeans, and especially missionaries re- 

 siding in the East, should be married. On the one hand 

 the wife, when properly qualified, is a valuable help-meet; 

 and on the other hand the Eastern nations look with great 

 distrust on unmarried men, and hence their usefulness 

 hereby is much impaired. 



We close this part of our work with the following graphic 

 description of a single day of missionary life. 



" To some it may appear quite a romantic mode of 

 life; it is one of active benevolence, such as the good may 

 enjoy at home. Take a single day as a sample of the 

 whole. We rose early, because, however hot the day may 

 have been, the evening, night, and morning at Kolobeng 

 were deliciously refreshing; cool is not the word, where 

 you have neither an increase of cold nor heat to desire, and 

 where you can sit ouf till midnight with no fear of coughs 

 or rheumatism. After family worship and breakfast between 

 six and seven, we went to keep school for all who would 

 attend; men, women and children being all invited. School 

 over at eleven o'clock, while the missionary's wife was 

 occupied in domestic matters, the missionary himself had 

 some manual labour, as a smith, carpenter, or gardener, 



1 Travels, p. 20. 



