IN WESTERN AFRICA. 
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CHAPTER XV. 
EVANGELIZATION— ITS DIFFICULTIES. 
The greatest disOouragement the missionary has 
to contend with in laboring among that people, is 
the fact that he can not give them a clear appre- 
hension of spiritual truth when first going among 
them, or when commencing at a new point. • 
For want of a proper medium by which to con- 
vey ideas, he fails, to a great extent, to place the 
truths of salvation before them in an intelligent 
form. To get figures which they understand by 
which to illustrate gospel truth, and bring it to 
bear upon their hearts and consciences, so as to 
produce conviction of sin, and a desire to be freed 
from it, is ditticult. 
Their habits of life and modes of thinking difier 
so widely from ours that the most simple and 
easily understood illustrations used by us are mis- 
understood, or fail to convey any meaning at all. 
After making the truth as simple and plain as it 
can be made, by the use of the most simple 
