Part 16 (1/2)

Moffat had hitherto taught the natives through an interpreter He now deteret to know all about their habits and customs, so as to be able to lay hold of them more forcibly He not only preached the Word in their native tongue, but set up in type and printed the Gospel of St Luke and some hymns

Then he followed on with the other Gospels and also the Epistles, till the entire of the New Testae

It ht that aFar from it To Mrs Moffat, who tried to teach the women to be cleanly in their habits, they would say, ”Ra Mary, your custoh for you, but we don't see that they fill the sto sufficient food to eat was very real The soil in the neighbourhood of the station was light and needed plenty of water, but the stream which supplied theetables was diverted froarden was nearly burnt up by the hot sun

On one occasion Mrs Moffat asked a native woman to move out of her kitchen, as she wanted to close it before she went to church For answer the wo of wood at her; and she, fearful lest her babe should be hurt, departed, leaving the savage woman in possession of her home

Whilst Mrs Moffat had difficulties at hooing in search of ga to spring upon hireatest caution he retired slowly fro hier when he trod on a cobra The reptile twisted itself about Moffat's leg, and was about to bite hiun at it and kill it The poison of this snake is so deadly that had he been bitten his death would have alh he was ready to lay down his life for their good, it was long ere the natives understood how firht the native ”rain-htened away the clouds So a number of people came to the o But Moffat was not to be awed by the threats of the warriors He told theht kill him, but he should certainly not be driven away

Then the chief and his followers gave up the contest and retired, full of wonder and admiration at his dauntless determination

Once, whilst Moffat ay on a visit to a neighbouring tribe, his as aroused in the night by the report that a hostile tribe had invaded their territory and was close upon theht, but ere she had finished her preparations the good news caone off in another direction Yet even then she was in fear for her husband's life But three weeks later, after enduring terrible anxiety, her husband returned in safety, having reat and wonderful change cast whoard of teaching they began to exhibit signs of spiritual life, and a number were baptised and received into the Church

[Illustration: Letter]

In 1871 Robert and Mary Moffat, after living in Africa for upwards of half a century, returned home From the letter to Mr G Unhich is here reproduced in facsimile, it will be seen that Robert Moffat's labours were not even then finished; for up to the last he took the greatest interest in the missionary cause

[Illustration: Reduced Facsimile letter froust, 1883, when he was in his eighty-eighth year

”THE LADY WITH THE LAMP”

THE STORY OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

”Lo! in that house ofgloom, And flit from room to room”

LONGFELLOW

”She would speak to one and another, and nod and smile to many more, but she could not do it to all, you know, for we lay there by hundreds; but we could kiss her shadow as it fell, and lay our heads on our pillows again, content”

So wrote one of the soldiers froale, the soldier's nurse, and the soldier's friend

Let us see how it happened that Florence Nightingale was able to do so ht in the Crimea, and why she has left her ale was born in the city of Florence in the year 1820, and it is from that beautiful Italian town that she derives her Christian nareat interest in the poor; and herto do thee folk She took thehted to nurse them when ill