IN PERILS OFTEN. 
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breadth escapes. Once he had found himself sud- 
denly placed between two black forces armed for 
war, and escaped only by a miracle. At one place 
they would neither sell nor give him anything to 
eat or drink; and in another he was allowed to 
live in an open shed in the middle of the town. 
Under the cover of the night's thick darkness — 
^ not a dozen yards from where he slept — a foul 
murder was committed. Far too near to be pleasant, 
eh ? The splendid courage and endurance of our 
missionaries of the Cross is to be accounted for in 
the same way as Paul explained his : I can do all 
things in Christ who strengtheneth me.'' 
