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GOD'S BLACK DIAMONDS 
God face to face. The Rev. George Bell, who is 
the missionary at Bottler Point, Fernando Poo, told 
me that at one of their church prayer meetings, 
Barnabas, his interpreter, offered prayer for a mis- 
sionary and his wife on the high seas going home 
for a well-earned rest. And this is what he asked 
God to do for them : Be Thou our eyes and watch 
over them, be Thou our hands and feed them, be 
Thou our feet and guide them.'* Beautiful, was 
it not? In the life-story of Christina Forsyth, a 
missionary at Xolobe, in Fingoland, there is a story 
of an old and poor Fingo woman who prayed to 
God like this : Lord, I have no home, Thou art 
my home. I have no goods, Thou art my portion. 
I have no food. Thou art the bread which came 
down from heaven, of which, if we eat, we shall 
never hunger.'' The twelve disciples, after they 
had heard Jesus pray, asked Him saying, Lord, 
teach us to pray." Don't you feel like that when 
you read of the beautiful way these Africans talk 
with God ? 
