Fitting a house for Charlotte. News of family illness and death since last contact a year ago; predictions that Grout would die within two years have proven incorrect, though then wife of the man predicting has died. "The change became such among the Zulus that we did not feel justified in stopping among them.... and what the Lord will now do with us, or the poor Zulus, is yet to be seen." Expects to remain in Natal and is fixing an old Boer's house on Natal Bay "where are a thick population of natives." Preached to nearly 700. "Umpandi [Mpande] is getting worse than Dingan was in putting his people to death. Two white men that were lately in his country he ordered out..." Has been called twice to preach to the Zulus and has done so: "I preached the gospel plainly to Dingan and his people, and have preached it as plainly to Umpandes people as I could, and offered to preach to Umpande, but he would not hear me. And now I have shaken all the dust against them."
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-f15-i001
- 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/9b42b8651b3d080f94ccb50e28e020a6
