Ordered to remain in Cape Town; learning Zulu language to prepare for Dingane. Advice for preparing for a long sea voyage: take care of your wife and suggestions for food to bring with (including cranberry sauce, fruit), clothing, and other goods. "And now my dear brother, perhaps you would like to know something of my own feelings since I left America respecting missions. I have not half enough of the spirit, but the work does not seem less desirable by any means. When I look out on the multitudes of motly beings in Cape Town who know nothing , & have no one to teach them, I see no hope of their being saved unless the subject of missions takes a deeper hold on their hearts & efforts than heretofore..."
Authors
- Collection
- Aldin Grout Papers
- Format
- Correspondence
- Pages
- 4 p.
- Place Discussed
- South Africa
- Provider
- Digital Commonwealth
- Published in
- South Africa
- Reference
- Local other: mums797-b01-f10-i002
- Rights
- Contact host institution for more information. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries.
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/6f105fea612d54f743c44c52535c014c
