THE K I N G ' S BUS I NE S S PERILS IN AFRICA
715 over and got on top of the house where the shepherd boy sleeps with the goats, and danced a jig on the roof, frighten ing the shepherd boy into thinking that he was going to be killed. “ Hyenas and jackals sing their songs about us nearly every night, and leopard tracks have been found frequently within a few feet of our door. “ One hundred and five snakes, all poisonous, were brought to us last month by the natives. We pay a small amount for each dead snake brought .to us, in an effort to rid this part of the country from this deadly menace, which embraces numerous varieties of reptiles ranging from puff-adders to pythons. Two weeks ago one was found in the house of one of our women missionaries. A few days ago another was in the roof of a house where a worker was lying in bed, sick with fever. In another in stance a snake was encountered just at the door of a missionary’s house; and twice the snakes have come up on the porch of my house, apparently desiring to come in and share our small quarters. One means of safety is the fact that many of the snakes are considered rare delicacies and are eaten by the natives. f t n CHRIST’S BLOOD SUFFICIENT Let us think of the innumerable stars. Let us multiply their actual millions by millions of imaginary mil lions more. Let us suppose them all to be densely inhabited for countless ages by races of fallen beings. We have no figures to show the number of the individual souls, still less to represent the multiplied acts of sin of all those single souls or spirits. But we know this, that the blood of Jesus would have been more than sufficient to cleanse all those countless fallen creations, and to absolve every separate sinner from every one of his multitudinous sins.— Dr. F. W. Faber.
SARLES E. HURLBURT of the African Inland Mission, in a recent letter to friends in America relates some of his experiences, as illustrat ing the words of Scripture: “ He shall give His angels
charge over thee.” He says: “ I have often been asked when at home to tell the people, ostensibly for the sake of the children, about wild animals in Africa, so here is something about recent experiences. “ Twice within a short time elephants have tramped through our gardens with out respect for hills of potatoes, straw berry plants, or the only corn we had for seed; and the path along our south border is frequently filled with tracks of wild buffalo. A few days ago the lions roared so loudly along this same south border of our station that one of our missionaries in an attempt to frighten it away nearly ruined a nice new tin pan by beating on it, and really believed the brute was just outside the door, although, as a matter of fact, tracks and other evidence proved it to have been at least a quarter of a mile away; but a good healthy lion’s roar in the stillness of a tropical African night causes reverberations that might reasonably seem to a novice to be very near, and certainly would make the win dows rattle, if we had any. “ About two weeks ago leopards killed a small deer in our garden, leaving a part of their meal for the next night. They returned the next night but found the natives had borrowed their food, and they growled and scolded for some hours, keeping the natives and some of the missionaries awake, wondering what they were going to do about it. Twice they have climbed over a high stockade where the cattle are kept and killed a goat, but were driven away before they could eat it. A third time they climbed
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