Messengers of the cross in Africa . In the long list of missionary heroes who grace the historyof Nazarene foreign missions no name is more eminent thanthat of Schmelzenbach. How redolent it is with the match-less heroism of the pioneer! How it breathes forth de-votion that is rare, faith that is sublime, and love that neverfails! How suggestive it is of steep mountains scaled, of swol-len streams forded, of weary miles across the bush veldt markedwith blood-drops from feet that hastened in search of the sheepthat was lost! Yet the name of Schmelzenbach is not alwayspitched in a minor key. On
Messengers of the cross in Africa . In the long list of missionary heroes who grace the historyof Nazarene foreign missions no name is more eminent thanthat of Schmelzenbach. How redolent it is with the match-less heroism of the pioneer! How it breathes forth de-votion that is rare, faith that is sublime, and love that neverfails! How suggestive it is of steep mountains scaled, of swol-len streams forded, of weary miles across the bush veldt markedwith blood-drops from feet that hastened in search of the sheepthat was lost! Yet the name of Schmelzenbach is not alwayspitched in a minor key. On the contrary, it bears a gloriousrefrain, the song of the gleaner bringing in the sheaves, ananthem of praise for precious trophies wrested from the princeof darkness! 6 MESSENGERS OF THE CROSS For all through the mountains thunder-riven, And up from the rocky steep,There comes a cry to the gate of heaven,Rejoice! I have found my sheep! All this is suggested by the name. As to the man himself,twenty-one years of intensive warfare a
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