" Such persons, perhaps, as those two poor negresses--to
remind you of a story which was famous in our fathers' time--those two
poor negresses, I say, who found the African traveller, Mungo Park, dying
of fever and starvation, and saved his life, simply from human love--as
they sung to themselves by his bedside--
"Let us pity the poor white man;
He has no mother to make his bed,
No wife to grind his corn."
Perhaps it is such as those, who have succoured human beings they knew
not why, simply from a divine instinct, from the voice of Christ within
their hearts, which they felt they must obey, though they knew not whose
voice it was. Perhaps, I say, it is such as those, that Christ will
astonish at the last day by the words, "Come ye blessed of my Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."
If this be the true meaning of our Lord's words, what comfort and hope
they may give us, when we think, as we are bound to think, if we have a
true humanity in us, of the hundreds of millions of heathen now alive,
and of the thousands of millions of heathen who have lived and died.
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