1 88 1.] On the Way to the Zambesi. 3 
joined in, "Come, come to Delagoa Bay." ''No teacher," 
continued the first speaker, "at Delagoa Bay. We build you 
house and chapel, and give you food and drink. Come to Delagoa 
BayJ^ No answer of mine would satisfy them. "Ah!" said 
their leader, "white man bring brandy to Delagoa Bay, and 
guns and powder; but white man no bring chapel to Delagoa 
Bay." I was for the moment quite overcome with this deeply- 
pathetic cry of " Come over and help us " from these poor 
Africans. They were raw Kaffirs who had been to Cape Town 
for work, and were now returning to their forest homes; and 
their simple words came to my heart as a call from God to 
yield myself more entirely to the service of taking the gospel 
to the most distant parts. 
NATAL. 
On Saturday, the 20th August, we were off Port Durban, and 
after breakfast all on board were greatly defighted at the prospect 
of soon getting on shore. A heavy ground-swell was rolling at 
the time, so that the passengers had to be lowered over the 
sides of the steamer in coal-baskets. After a few minutes more 
of tossing in the barge -like boats (in which we were battened 
down under the low deck), and three or four tremendous lurches 
in crossing the rough bar, where the boat was literally buried 
in the broken water, our voyage was over, and we were in the 
smooth water of Durban Bay, alongside the pier. 
Next evening we found our way to a little chapel where a 
Mr. Russell was to preach. We were late in reaching it, and as 
we entered the preacher was on the point of giving out his text : 
" Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or 
brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or 
lands, for My sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an 
hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, 
and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions ; and in 
the world to come eternal life."^' Nothing happens by chance. 
The Lord considers our faltering hearts, and restores us by that 
Word which refreshed His own soul when on His toilsome path 
* In the sympathy with which his course in Africa has been followed, and 
in the welcome which awaited him in very many homes on his return, 
Mr. Arnot has found a fulfilment of these words. — Ed. 
