78 LETTER FROM THE REV. GOPENATH NUNDY. LETTER FROM THE REV. GOPENATH NUNDY. LET our readers look back to our 66 to bring us to renounce the Christian faith, brought, forward all the threats which a wicked heart could invent. He threatened to take off all the limbs of our bodies, and thus torture us to death; but when he saw that these even had no effect to change our creed, he then promised to give us riches, land free of He says:rent, and other worldly grandeurs ; "The saving of our lives was a but, thanks be to God, he soon remiracle. Other dear Christians, ceived a negative answer. His next both European and native, were attack was on my poor wife, who, exposed to similar dangers, but though naturally a timid woman, most of them were slaughtered. yet at that moment she was astonNo less than ten or twelve times ishingly bold in declaring her faith. we were brought to the very brink Well may I insert the sweet words of the grave. Every thing ap- of our blessed Lord-'And ye shall peared as against us. The sun be brought before governors and beat upon us with all its powerful kings for my sake, for a testimony rays; the hot wind-of which you against them and the Gentiles. cannot form any conception, as you But when they deliver you up, take were never in the country-pierced no thought how or what ye shall like deadly arrows; the sword hung, speak, for it shall be given you in and was ready to fall upon us, to that same hour what ye shall speak: divide our bodies from our heads; for it is not ye that speak, but the starvation and nakedness brought spirit of your Father which speaketh our mortal frames into a state of in you.' Surrounded as she was wretchedness; yet none had power by no less than a hundred infuriated to injure us, because such was not and savage-looking men with drawn the will of our heavenly Father. swords, ready to inflict torture, yet Again, the trials were so great and she defended her faith most gloriincessant, that nothing but the grace ously. When the moulwí appealed of God alone kept us faithful. The to her, and said what he would do moulwí, when foiled by arguments—thinking, no doubt, that her na LETTER FROM THE REV. GOPENATH NUNDY. tural weakness would yield to his "A short account of the Futtehpur native Christians I am sure will not be uninteresting. All of them, with their families, remained in the mis 79 sion premises to the last moment. When the mutineers attacked and burnt all the houses, they then fled in different directions. Some of them, after crowding in jungles for more than a month, came to Allahabad for shelter: the others, no one knows whether they were killed by the mutineers or fell victims to the climate. One family, a man and his wife, who were both baptized and admitted into the Christian church, were caught by the mutineers. One of the man's hands was cut off, and the woman, after being savagely treated, was shorn of her hair. The English army arriving in time saved their lives. They are now at Allahabad. "This heavy chastisement which our heavenly Father sent upon His own people is doubtless to humble us to the dust, to convince us of our weakness, and to make it a means to draw us nearer to Himself. But something more than these He has in view; that is, that His blessed gospel may not only be freely preached but believed by the inhabitants of this land. All those rajahs, nawabs, pundits, and moulwís, who were bitter enemies to Christianity, and who, hitherto, stood as a great barrier to the propagation of His true religion, will no more be obstacles in the way: 80 POETRY-LINES TO A MISSIONARY. most of them had joined this mutiny, and now they are daily paying the penalty of their wickedness, and we have every hope and belief that the gospel will have a free course throughout the length and breadth of this dark benighted land; then the declaration of the Scripture will be fulfilled, 'that, at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.' "THAT'S THE NAME." THE simple message which our mis- missionary was preaching at some Poetry. LINES TO A MISSIONARY. "Have ye counted the cost? Are ye fixed in your heart for your Master's sake, Can ye bear the scoff of the worldly wise? To watch with your Lord on the mountain side, "Oh, the banner of love! His love ye cannot measure." Price 6d. per doz. or 3s. 6d. per 100; 20 copies sent free by post for 10d., paid in advance, Published by GALL & INGLIS, 6 George Street, Edinburgh. HOULSTON & WRIGHT, London. I TOLD you last month how the Boers While Dr Livingstone was absent hated Sechele and his people, because they would not be their slaves. They were always threatening to attack them, and at last they kept their word. November 1858. from the place in 1852, four hundred Boers attacked Sechele, and after killing a good many of the people, carried off two hundred of the schoolchildren into slavery. They showed their hatred of Dr Livingstone, as manded that I should be in their being the black man's friend, by kingdom, and I refused; they deplundering his house. He says:manded that I should prevent the "The books of a good library-my English and Griquas from passing. solace in our solitude- were not I replied, These are my friends, taken away, but handfuls of the and I can prevent no one of them. leaves were torn out, and scattered | They came on Saturday, and I beover the place. My stock of medicines was smashed, and all our furniture and clothing carried off, and sold by public auction." They pretended to think that the missionary had taught Sechele and his people to fight, and this was the way they revenged themselves. Sechele's wife escaped with the greatest difficulty to Mr Moffat's station at the Kuruman, where she told the sad story. She and her baby had been hidden in a cleft of a rock, while the Boers were just over her head firing their guns. Her little child began to cry, and terrified lest this should attract the attention of the Boers who were so close to her, she took off the bracelets from her arms as playthings to quiet the child. She brought a letter with her to Mr Moffat, of which Dr Livingstone says the following is a literal translation : "Friend of my heart's love, and of all the confidence of my heart, I am Sechele; I am undone by the Boers, who attacked me, though I had no guilt with them. They de sought them not to fight on Sunday, and they assented. They began on Monday at twilight, and fired with all their might, and burned the town with fire and scattered us. They killed sixty of my people, and captured women, and children, and men. And the mother of Baleriling (a former wife of Sechele), they took prisoner. They took all the cattle and all the goods of the Bakwains; and the house of Livingstone they plundered, taking away all his goods. The number of waggons they had was eighty-five, and a cannon; and after they had stolen my own waggon, and that of Macabe, then the number of their waggons (counting the cannon as one) was eighty-eight. All the goods of the English hunters were burned in the town; and of the Boers were killed | twenty-eight. Yes, my beloved friend, now my wife goes to see the children, and Kobus Hae will convey her to you.-I am Sechele, "THE SON OF Mochoaselle." Sechele had before this sent his five children to Mr Moffat at |