of the language. As a matter of fact, no work is more trying to the temper, or gives more splendid opportunities of proving, by a Christian demeanour under all circumstances, what a life influenced by the Gospel is. Indeed, many workmen, finding the missionary a kind master, so very different to their own native overseers, are willing to listen to the introduction of the Gospel.
I know one case of a man who had been in touch with our missionaries ever since there was a mission in Uganda. He had always resisted every effort to get him to read. But when helping to build a house he was again invited to learn. He at last yielded, received his first lessons during mealtimes, and is now reading for baptism, much to the astonishment of his fellow natives, who cannot understand his willingness to begin after refusing for so many years. Let no one think that manual labour is without its opportunities of preaching the Gospel
