140 Seven Years in Central Africa. [Oct, 
purposes which He hath for this country will be served thereby. 
I am filled with joy at the substance of that for which I hope — 
" fields white unto the harvest." 
DIVINE LOVE AND ITS RESULTS. 
The true living spring of all our work must be, that " we have 
known and believed the love that God hath to us." Who shall 
speak of love, or who shall declare the sweetness of it ? In the 
Epistle to the Romans the Holy Spirit is not spoken of until the 
fifth chapter is reached, and then in connection with love — 
^' Because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the 
Holy Ghost which is given unto us." It would appear from this 
that the presence of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, is not 
apparent to the subject of divine grace until he discovers that 
" new commandment " of love working in him, so that, contrary 
to all his former habits and experiences, he glories in tribulation, 
knowing that tribulation worketh patience, etc. ; the mainspring of 
all being ^''because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts 
by the Holy Ghost." The cause, " love^' and the result, " know- 
ing^^ are joined together, answering to those two truths that 
" God is love" and " God is light." To dwell in love is to dwell 
in light. In the sunshine of God's presence we understand all 
things as they really are, not as they outwardly seem to be, so 
that the conduct of him who glories in tribulation is not forced, 
but natural. In that which seems to bear him downwards he 
finds, in the light of Bethel, a staircase leading upwards, even to 
patience, experience, and tranquillity before God. 
KAPOKO. 
In the evening I visited Kapoko. His town is large and very 
cleanly. The chief, however, could not see me, as he was 
mourning the death of a child. I left a present of 32 yards of 
calico for him, and returned to camp. A little later in the 
evening three of his headmen came to me with a story of great 
dissatisfaction, said to be from Kapoko, to the effect that my 
present was too small. " I surely thought," they said, " that 
Kapoko was a very small man, seeing I had sent him so small a 
present." I listened to their story with every attention, and 
then seriously assured them of the mistake they were making, 
