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fully undertaken. By turns you are farmer, builder, 
smith, carpenter, cook, tailor, doctor, schoolmaster, 
and preacher. Rowland Hill used to say that a 
missionary should be able to make a wheelbarrow as 
well as preach a sermon. 
It has already been shown that the first work you 
have to do is to build yourself a house. The next is 
to furnish it as best you can. If you are a bachelor 
all your household arrangements devolve upon you. 
You have to keep the place in order, instruct and 
superintend the cook, darn your own stockings, and 
mend your own clothes. Nor must you be above . 
turning " Jack of all trades " in behalf of your people ; 
indeed you 7nust do it if you are to do them any 
good. 
Outside your house all is wilderness and jungle. 
This has to be reduced and cultivated ; saw and axe, 
spade, shovel, and hoe have to be brought into opera- 
tion here ; you must dig, and delve, and hack away 
with all your might and main, if you intend to get 
the upper hand of the wilderness. Yet your very 
health largely depends upon effecting a clearance. 
But the labour it entails in a tropical country is very 
serious. 
You have to turn your attention, too, to the healing 
art. A knowledge of medicine, if it be only a little, 
is of great advantage to the missionary. At Ribe we 
have people coming to us from all the surrounding 
countries, and sometimes from very great distances, 
for medical assistance. We treat all kindly. In 
many cases cures are effected, and we thereby gain 
an influence with the people which could not be other- 
wise attained. It is wonderful with what readiness 
