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feet; and distribution was made unto every man 
according as be bad need. If it be true that all 
that we bave and are is Christ’s, might it not also 
be our duty to give all for the promotion of bis 
kingdom ? 
But if we take the Savior as an example of be- 
nevolence, we will carry on the work of evange- 
lization at any and every cost. He left a better 
residence, in a better country, and better friends 
than it is possible for us to leave, and came into 
as bad a place, and aniong as bad a people 
as is possible for us to find; for nowhere would 
the people do worse than kill us. He gave up his 
wealth in heaven, and then his life a ransom for us. 
■ Concerning the African mission, many reason 
thus : 
It will cost too much ; and besides, it will do 
no good. They are a stupid, degraded people any- 
how, and there can nothing be made out of them. 
Go among them and do all you can to teach them 
better, and they will rob you of your goods, and 
keep on doing as they now do. God has placed 
them over there in Africa, and he will do right 
with them. Stay at home and do good here, and 
don’t go over there and get sick and die.” 
How the blessed Savior in heaven could have 
said as bad things of the people living on earth 
just before he came to this world, as can be said 
