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AN OPPORTUNITY LOST. 
May 21th. — I have heard to-day of the death of Monkobe at 
Kalolo. I visited his town last year, and was very well received. 
About two months ago or more he sent a message to me, asking 
me to repeat my visit. I had intended doing so very soon, and 
now hear of his death. Alas for the stiffness of my neck and my 
unwilling feet ! It was the rain that prevented me, or I might 
have gone when his message came. Surely I have not yet learned 
to endure hardness for the gospel's sake. But there is scarcely a 
place I have been to that messages have not followed to repeat 
my visit. May the Lord of the harvest send help here soon, is 
my heart's prayer. 
About this time six years ago I was preparing to make fare- 
well visits. It is not a long time, but it is long to be away from 
all those whom the affections hold as near and beloved in this 
life. It is a long time to be a stranger on the earth, without a 
companion ; yet, strange to say, it is only when I sit down and 
think of it that I feel it at all ; as a rule the days go by without 
a shadow of loneliness. The good Lord has wonderfully made 
up to me for the lack of Christian fellowship by giving me Dick 
and Susi, and the other three little black faces keep alive some- 
what the dear old home memories of nursery days and of love 
for love. 
Susi may not be very long with me now. I urge him to go. 
His father left his mother and two young children in Bihe, so 
now it falls to Susi to be their natural protector. He says that 
he will stay here, however, for four or five months yet, so that he 
may travel out with some relatives of his that are here. 
SUSI BAPTIZED. 
May 2Zih. — Susi was baptised this morning. He had pro- 
fessed conversion sometime before, but it was not until after the 
baptism of his companion Dick that any change was manifest in 
him. Instead of telling me that he believed in Jesus, and that 
Jesus was his Saviour, he reversed the order, and, as he quaintly 
put it, he spoke down his throat to his own heart these things. 
He has, ever since, I am thankful to say, been sincerely trying in 
the midst of many difficulties and temptations to live a new life 
in Christ Jesus. 
