...other African missions. Yet in secret his heart bled, and he marked his Bible at the pathetic text, "I have laboured in vain and spent my strength for nought and in vain." An episode of a very different kind created about this time a universal interest in Barotsiland. It...

...his soul faints within him, and he returns to his master sad and sorrowful, and is ready to say, " I have laboured in vain, and spent my strength for nought and in vain." Surely the seed I cast is among thorns, or in stony places, for I see neither "earing noi harvest."...