CHAPTER XV. 
EVANGELIZATION— ITS DIFFICULTIES. 
The greatest discouragement the Mission* 
ary has to contend with in laboring among 
that people, is the fact that he eannot give 
them a clear apprehension of spiritual truth 
when first going among them, or when com- 
mencing at a new point. 
For want of a proper medium by which 
to convey ideas, he fails, to some extent, to 
place the truths of salvation before them in 
an intelligent form. To get figures which 
they understand by which to illustrate gos- 
pel truth, and bring it to bear upon their 
hearts and consciences, so as to produce con- 
viction of sin, and a desire to be freed from 
it, is difficult. 
Their habits of life and modes of think- 
ing differ so widely from ours, that the most 
simple and easily understood illustrations^ 
used by us, are misunderstood, or fail to con- 
vey any meaning at all. After making the 
truth as simple and plain m it can be made ? 
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