rbarians. A highly-educated man may be appreciated
among those who are educated themselves; but how can he be appreciated
by the savage? On the contrary, the savage looks with much more respect
upon a man who can forge iron, repair his weapons, and excite his
astonishment by his cunning workmanship; for then the savage perceives
and acknowledges his superiority, which in the man of intellect he would
never discover.

"Besides, admitting that it would be preferable to employ persons of
higher mental attainments, where are they to be found? Could you expect,
when so many laborers are required in the vineyard, a sufficient number
of volunteers among the young men brought up at the universities? Would
they be able to submit to those privations, and incur those hardships,
to which the African missionaries are exposed? Would they be able to
work hard and labor for their daily bread, or be willing to encounter
such toil and such danger as must be encountered by those who are sent
here? I fear not. And allow me here to remark, that at the first
preaching of Christianity it was not talented and educated men who were
selected by our Saviour; out of the twelve, the Apostle Paul was the
only one who had such claims.

"If we had beheld the Galilean fishermen mending their nets, should we
have ever imagined that those humble laborers were to be the people who
should afterward regenerate the world?--should overthrow the idolatries
and crumble the superstitions of ancient empires and kingdoms?--and that
what they--uneducated, but, we admit, divinely inspired and
supported--had taught should be joyfully received, as it is now, we may
say, from the rising to the setting of the sun, to the utmost boundaries
of the earth?"

"Most truly and most admirably argued, Swinton," replied Alexander. "The
Almighty, as if to prove how insignificant in his sight is all human
power, has often made use of the meanest instruments to accomplish the
greatest ends. Who knows but that even our keeping holy the Sabbath-day
in the desert may be productive of some good, and be the humble means of
advancing the Divine cause? We must ever bear in mind the counsel, 'In
the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand; for
thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether
they both shall be alike good.'"

"Surely so," replied Swinton; "the natives consider us as a superior
race; they see our worship, and they are led to t