Excerpt from Day-Dawn in Dark Places: A Story of Wanderings and Work in Bechuanaland The life of a missionary in the interior of Southern Africa is usually attended with stirring incident and adventure. Whilst pursuing his great work of evangelist he meets with game and wild beasts in the open country; with wild and degraded men in town and village. He uses waggons, guns, horses, and oxen; he handles trowel, plumb-line, adze, saw, and spirit-level, as well as the usual implements of a minister's study. His highest work is to deliver the message of Heaven's mercy, and to explain the Sacred Book in which it is contained; but he seeks also to teach' something of natural science. At times he is a school master; and again he may be seen with his disciples in the garden or com-field with spade or plough in his hands. Readers of Ten Years North of the Orange River will feel themselves at home in the pages of day-dawn in Dark Places. In preparing this little book my great object has been to give in brief space a clear and true picture of Mission Life and Work, leaving that to produce its own effect on my readers' mind. I have noticed that books which are much liked by young people are usually favourites with old people also; and I need hardly say that I shall feel quite honoured if this should be the happy fate of the present little volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.