evening he lies in the cemetery. "All flesh is grass. Evening went to New Primrose.

In

SUNDAY, JUNE 27TH.-Eight o'clock started for Simmer and Jack. Called in at Primrose and had meeting with Bachopis. Got Mabekrase. Also had Barnabas, George, Rose Deep, Falandi and Tom Hlonga. Held five meetings in Simmer and Jack, then went to Rose Deep and held two meetings. afternoon went with wife to Glencairn. Called up a crowd, with aid of Rivett playing on the cornet, at May Consolidated. Had the largest meeting in the Glencairn we have had. Went into the Uiner compound and held a conversation with the boys. After this went to Glen Deep and held a joint meeting with wife, Rivett and all the boys. Then went to May Deep and had a good meeting. The head policeman called them up. George talked first, then wife and myself. At night a grand meeting in school. Two Dutch girls present. Induna of Primrose got up and talked. Said his heart was pressed with what had been said; that he drank, but wanted us to pray for him. The head policeman of Rose Reep got up and talked. At the altar service we had an Xsa, Suto, several Shangans, a Muchopi and a Delagoa Bay Zulu out. God was with us. Wife and myself talked. They gave us £1 6s 6d on bell.

THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1897.—Read some in Zulu in the morning. Went to Elandsfontein station and to Parker, Wood & Co.'s to see about bell. Had it carried up. In afternoon went to Glencairn. Had some good talks with the boys. Primrose in evening, talking in rooms, etc. Good school-28 in attendance.

FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1897.-Morning, put up bell, assisted by Rivett and the boys. In afternoon went to Simmer and Jack, visited the rooms, etc.

SUNDAY, Nov. 7TH.-Morning went to Simmer and Jack with Mrs. A. and Pavile. Held five meetings, then went home and held meeting-about 25 present at the chapel. In afternoon went to Glencairn and Glen Deep. Held two meetings in Glencairn and Glen Deep. At night 42 present. Joel talked. Three forward. Collection 8s 9d. Preached to 675 people (during the day).

SUNDAY, DEC. 5, '97,-Morning, 7:30 started for White,

watersrand. Held two meetings, 100 and 115 present. Glass, Concertina. Stick talked. Then went to Glenluce, held meeting there, about 60 present. Some Basutos. Glass talked to them in Sesuto. We then went to the Glencairn and held one meeting there; 65 present. Afternoon went to New Primrose. A lot running to and fro very drunk. Here Glass again talked, and they listened to him attentively. We then went to the Simmer and Jack. First meeting about 150 present. We divided it up, and Glass talked to the Basutos present and Basule and myself to the Inhambanes. Next meeting with the

GLASS, A NATIVE CONVERT, EXHORTING IN A JOHANNESBURG COMPOUND.

Bachopis, about 60 present. Stick and another young man talked. Third meeting at Simmer and Jack; but few present. There was a big dance started in the middle compound just after we finished our first meeting. This upset things. We had about 15 with us in the compound-two Bachopis, three Ngambanes, three Shangans, three Delagoa Bays, three Zulus, two Swazis, and had preaching in four different dialects. At night 45 present, collection 5s 6d. One Shangan servant said that his besetting sin was drink, but he gave it

up. After the meeting was over a Church of England boy who had given me his church letter was talking to me. I told him that he never could be saved by candles in the services. All at once he caught me round the waist and lifted me off my feet. It seems that God had been letting him see the true light, but Satan is trying to switch him off on to ritualism.

The foregoing extracts afford fair examples of how Mr. Agnew toiled for the redemption of the Africans of various tribes employed in the gold fields as long as he continued on that field. Much immediate and valuable fruit of his labors appeared, but not until the return of the Master to reckon with his servants and reward them as their work shall be will the full harvest produced from the seed he sowed be gathered. Then shall he see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied.

CHAPTER XXXI.

WORK IN THE

COMPOUNDS

CONTINUED-SKETCHES

OF NATIVE CONVERTS.

Oh let us rejoice in the work of the Lord,
The service of Jesus brings blessed reward;
The shadows shall flee from Love's conquering day,
The light of the gospel is winning its way.

-E. E. Hewitt.

Mr. Agnew found the work in the compounds one of remarkable and ever increasing interest. Many cases of conversion occurred among the natives, and many there were who brought forth "fruits meet for repentance" by making confession of their crookedness and by making restitution of goods that had been stolen or fraudulently obtained.

On Sundays, accompanied by some of the native Christian young men, he would visit the compounds and hold open air meetings. Sometimes they would hold ten meetings in a day, including one or two indoor services held in their chapel. Certainly there was nothing like ease-taking in such a life as that.

Not all the mine-owners would admit the missionaries to their compounds, some of them being bitterly opposed to the evangelization of the natives, claiming that Christianity unfitted them for their work. Probably it did unfit those who embraced it for being regarded and treated as cattle, by teaching them selfrespect and love of liberty; but that it unfitted them in

the sense of making them more treacherous, shiftless, careless and unreliable, especially when treated as human beings, is not warranted by facts; and, fortunately, there were but few mine managers who ever made such allegations. Most of them had sense enough and sufficient humaneness to allow the natives under their control to hear the gospel of Christ preached in their own tongues.

As a rule few open air meetings were held by the missionaries during the week, at this period of their labors there, the time being spent chiefly in visiting the rooms and praying with the young men, and particularly with the sick. Every week night meetings of some kind were held in the schoolroom or chapel. Four nights each week there was a school session, Wednesday night a prayer meeting and Saturday night a singing class.

Our Sunday night meeting was generally our best indoor meeting, says Mr. Agnew. Owing to the confusion and hubbub going on in the compounds it was almost impossible to deal with souls under conviction in the open air, so we always invited them into our school and indoor meetings. Sometimes in the out-of-door meetings we would be disturbed by drunken characters and others. These disturbances were generally stopped, however, by either the native compound police or other natives. Considering the number of meetings we held, the drunkenness of many of the natives and the many different tribes represented, it was wonderful that such general good order prevailed in the meetings.

Mr. Agnew has left us the following sketch of a few of the more prominent converts brought to Christ in the Johannesburg compounds, which will be of interest to the reader:

The first was a Zulu young man, TOM HLONGO by name. He