208 DIVINE SERVICE AT SESHEKE. CHAP. VIII. 



lis. Dr. Kirk being of the same age, Sekeletu was particu- 

 larly anxious that he should come and live with him. He 

 said that he would cut off a section of the country for the 

 special use of the English ; and on being told that in all 

 probability their descendants would cause disturbance in 

 his country, he replied, " These would be only domestic 

 feuds, and of no importance." The great extent of un- 

 cultivated land on the cool and now unpeopled highlands 

 has but to be seen to convince the spectator how much 

 room there is, and to spare, for a vastly greater population 

 than ever, in our day, can be congregated there. 



On the last occasion of our holding Divine service at 

 Sesheke, the men were invited to converse on the subject 

 on which they had been addressed. So many of them had 

 died since we were here before, that not much probability 

 existed of our all meeting again, and this had naturally 

 led to the subject of a future state. They replied that 

 they did not wish to offend the speaker, but they could not 

 believe that all the dead would rise again : " Can those 

 who have been killed in the field and devoured by the 

 vultures ; or those who have been eaten by the hyenas or 

 lions ; or those who have been tossed into the river, and 

 eaten by more than one crocodile, — can they all be raised 

 again to life?" They were told that men could take a 

 leaden bullet, change it into a salt (acetate of lead), which 

 could be dissolved as completely in water as our bodies in 

 the stomachs of animals, and then reconvert it into lead ; 

 or that the bullet could be transformed into the red and 

 white paint of our wagons, and again be reconverted into 

 the original lead ; and that if men exactly like themselves 

 could do so much, how much more could He do who has 

 made the eye to see, and the ear to hear ! We added, 

 however, that we believed in a resurrection, not because 

 we understood how it would be brought about, but because 

 our Heavenly Father assured us of it in His Book. The 



