pensable to dissipate this inveterate superstition regarding
Christian influence.

A few extracts from his Journal in the Barotse country will more vividly
exhibit his state of mind:

"_27th August_, 1853.--The more intimately I become
acquainted with barbarians, the more disgusting does
heathenism become. It is inconceivably vile. They are always
boasting of their fierceness, yet dare not visit another
tribe for fear of being killed. They never visit anywhere but
for the purpose of plunder and oppression. They never go
anywhere but with a club or spear in hand. It is lamentable
to see those who might be children of God, dwelling in peace
and love, so utterly the children of the devil, dwelling in
fear and continual irritation. They bestow honors and
flattering titles on me in confusing profusion. All from the
least to the greatest call me Father, Lord, etc., and bestow
food without recompense, out of pure kindness. They need a
healer. May God enable me to be such to them....

"_31st August_.--The slave-trade seems pushed into the very
centre of the continent from both sides. It must be
profitable....

"_September 25, Sunday_.--A quiet audience to-day. The seed
being sown, the least of all seeds now, but it will grow a
mighty tree. It is as it were a small stone cut out of a
mountain, but it will fill the whole earth. He that believeth
shall not make haste. Surely if God can bear with hardened
impenitent sinners for thirty, forty, or fifty years, waiting
to be gracious, we may take it for granted that his is the
best way. He could destroy his enemies, but He waits to be
gracious. To become irritated with their stubbornness and
hardness of heart is ungodlike....

"_13th October_.--Missionaries ought to cultivate a taste for
the beautiful. We are necessarily compelled to contemplate
much moral impurity and degradation. We are so often doomed
to disappointment. We are apt to become either callous or
melancholy, or, if preserved from these, the constant strain
on the sensibilities is likely to injure the bodily health.
On this account it seems necessary to cultivate that faculty
for the gratification of which God has made such universal
provision. See the green earth and blue sky, the lofty
mountain and the verdant valley, the gloriou