A life for Africa : RevAdolphus Clemens Good, , American missionary in equatorial West Africa . fear from the eventsof the last great day. And yet that man ispassionate, cruel, always ready for a fight ora foray, probably a robber and murderermany times over; his avarice is insatiable,he is a beastly glutton. But as he standsforth, dilating on the shortcomings of hisforty or fifty wives and on the faults of his ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH 249 neighbors in general, he seems utterly uncon-scious of the fact that he is probably thegreatest sinner of them all. How exceedinglyhuman all this is! an
A life for Africa : RevAdolphus Clemens Good, , American missionary in equatorial West Africa . fear from the eventsof the last great day. And yet that man ispassionate, cruel, always ready for a fight ora foray, probably a robber and murderermany times over; his avarice is insatiable,he is a beastly glutton. But as he standsforth, dilating on the shortcomings of hisforty or fifty wives and on the faults of his ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH 249 neighbors in general, he seems utterly uncon-scious of the fact that he is probably thegreatest sinner of them all. How exceedinglyhuman all this is! and how I long for the daywhen the Spirit of truth will give them sucha view of their own sins that they will forgetthose of their neighbors! The responsibility resting upon Dr. Goodfor the health of his younger associates andof the whole great enterprise was keenly ap-preciated. You will not be surprised whenI tell you that I sometimes tremble. I under-stand now Pauls anxiety, so often spoken ofin his epistles, lest he should be ^put toshame. I can only pray that Grod will glorifyhis great LYCOPODIUM GROWING AROUND THE STATION, CHAPTEE XIV The Ckowning Yeae1894 AT Efulen all was animation and actionJr\^ in the spring of 1894. Dr. Grood andMr. Kerr were out with native workmen,making a road around swamps, the worstplace on the route to the beach, and bridgingthe Kribi Eiver at a point twenty miles fromthe station, by felling an immense tree acrossit. He doubts whether there is a pastor inNew York City who could have done foursuch days work without feeling inconve-nience. A school-house is finished in May,the first in all Buludom; and now that theyhave promise of recruits from America, saw is in motion again, and great balesof bark and other materials are gradually 250
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