HOME ONCE MORE, AND RETURN TO AFRICA. I4I 
After the presentation of an engraved address, Mr. 
Stanley responded, bearing in the course of a char- 
acteristic address, most generous but just testimony 
to the labours of Mr. Comber and of other Christian 
missionaries. 
During his sojourn at home, Mr. Comber wrote, 
at the request of the Committee, a manual of a 
hundred pages for the use of missionaries to the 
Congo, containing, as the outcome of his own experi- 
ence, most important directions, hints and warnings. 
Two other manuals appeared at the same time, one 
written by Dr. Frederic Roberts, and the other by 
Dr. Prosser James, the latter taking the form of 
familiar letters addressed to Mr. Comber, and to 
which Mr. Comber himself wrote an introduction. 
And so the few months to be spent in the old 
country passed busily and rapidly away. The 
necessities of the work in Africa, and the departure of 
several new missionaries, whom it was desirable he 
should accompany, brought his furlough to an end in 
the month of August. A few days before he left, he 
wrote to his esteemed friend, Mr. Parkinson : “ Not- 
withstanding the driving work and anxiety since my 
return, I seem to have drunk to the full the pleasures 
of knowing what dear friends I have, and yet whom 
I seem to have seen so little. The knowledge of 
affectionate regard and sympathy, so much greater 
than I am worthy of, will cheer, console and nerve 
me, but will make me long to see you all again. 
I shall have many tinglings of pleasure-pain from 
mingled reflections. But what is before me, I know 
not. So long as our Father guides my steps, I fear 
nothing. I want it to be ‘for me to live, Christ,’ 
always and in everything. I sometimes wonder 
whether this will be my last visit to England.” 
A deeply interesting valedictory service was held in 
Camden Road Chapel, an address being delivered by 
the Rev. S. H. Booth, which was followed by another 
meeting of the same character at Liverpool on the 
