A BIT OF GOOD SALT. 
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true to himself and his Christian principles, as is 
good salt. We think it requires grit and courage 
to be true soldiers of the Cross in playground, 
school and workshop here. And we all know that 
it required that, and more, in the Army and Navy 
during these last four or five years, but it is ten 
times more so in West Africa — the devil's play- 
ground. Almost from the very beginning we have 
had those in our Missions as staunch and steadfast 
as good salt always is. I am reminded just here 
of a youth who passed through our Jamestown day- 
school and attended the services regularly, and pro- 
bably came to the training class held for those who 
had thoughts of and desires for a Christian life. 
He was called away up country, and stayed there, a 
hundred miles, roughly speaking, from our nearest 
Mission. What did he do? Become like those 
about him ? Nay ; like the salt, he practised his 
Christian principles without fear and without 
favour, and made his power and presence known to 
the help and blessing of many. In the great ex- 
tensions of these last ten years, our Mission has 
reached the town where he had proved himself a bit 
of good salt, and found him at the head of a church 
with a number of Christian disciples ready to give 
the missionary an enthusiastic welcome. I have men- 
tioned elsewhere that Arsibong Town was our start- 
ing-point in Nigeria. Here, in this one town, I've 
come across several illustrations which show that 
Christ makes His disciples to-day, just what He 
made of those early disciples of His ! One day when 
the missionary was away on business, there was a 
death in town. If our Societv Steward had not used 
his influence, there would have been a heathen 
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