will you wander?" and the well-known hymn, “Come Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove."

The more we trace the record of his daily toil the more evident does it become that this devoted man of God diligently redeemed the time, in his labors on the foreign field, and earnestly endeavored to employ and master every art by which he might the more successfully acquaint the benighted heathen with the true God and his Son, Jesus Christ. His success was largely due to his incessant and unwearied plodding. As of the Master whom he served, so of himself, it might be said: "The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up."

CHAPTER XXXIII.

PROGRESS AT JOHANNESBURG MRS. AGNEW'S ILLNESS AND RECOVERY-JAIL WORK-THIRD

WALK TO INHAMBANE.

In his duty prompt at every call,

He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all;
And, as a bird each fond endearment tries

To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies,
He tried each art, reproved each dull delay,
Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.

-Goldsmith's Pastor.

Under the wisely directed and burning zeal with which they applied themselves to the work in Johannesburg Mr. and Mrs. Agnew were given to see continued progress and increasing encouragement in their efforts to evangelize and save the heathen. Numerous articles were contributed to the church paper this year giving reports of what God was doing for and through them in this direction. Many remarkable conversions occurred, the school continued to be well attended and the work carried on therein was fruitful in the way of spiritual as well as intellectual results.

Mrs. Agnew being in poor health and in need of rest and careful medical attention, on the 15th of March, 1899, she went to an Adventist sanitarium in Cape Colony, where she remained five weeks, in the meantime undergoing a surgical operation which afforded her relief. During her absence Mr. Agnew continued his labors on the mission buildings and

brought them well on toward completion. He underwent a hard strain in this work, but felt amply rewarded for it when, almost immediately, he found himself in charge of a prosperous school, and saw the heathen under his labors coming into the marvelous light of God. The school continued to prosper until interrupted by the British-Boer war. Up to April the average attendance was twenty-six. A number of interesting and even remarkable conversions had also occurred.

While Mrs. Agnew was in Cape Colony a friend of hers, Mr. I. S. Lavely, of Shenandoah, Iowa (U. S. A.), landed on the Cape on his way to Johannesburg. When she returned to the Transvaal he accompanied her. They arrived at Johannesburg April 26. For some time Mr. Lavely resided with Mr. Agnew's people, assisting in finishing the mission buildings and in the holding of meetings at the compounds.

In obedience to the Master's instruction Mr. Agnew remembered not only those in more favored conditions, but those who were in prison as well, and so, having secured a permit, devoted himself to carrying the gospel to the occupants of the native jail. In one of his published reports he says: "Yesterday (Sunday) we went in the morning to the native jail, which is not far from us. Here over one hundred native prisoners listened to the words of eternal life. In the jail we are always sure of good attention, as every one is sober, and the prisoners are glad of a change in the daily routine." The jail work was continued until the breaking out of the war, Mrs. Agnew, Mr. Lavely,

Miss Allen and Peter, the native evangelist, carrying it on during Mr. Agnew's absences from home.

More than usual Mr. Agnew devoted himself to writing on general topics during this year. He contributed able and interesting articles to the church paper on such subjects as "The White Man's Burden," a thrilling statement of facts regarding the wrongs perpetrated upon the native Africans by AngloSaxon peoples; "Slavery in Africa," another startling disclosure of African social conditions; "The Situation in the Transvaal," an able discussion of the strained relations between the British and the Boers; "Divine Healing," a sound, sensible and discriminating criticism of the theory that it is a sin to be sick and wrong to take medicine for the cure of sickness, a theory which had wrought no little harm among missionaries in some parts of Africa.

On May 11, 1899, Mr. Agnew started on yet another walking tour to Inhambane. This was his regular annual visit to the east coast, and was arranged for with the missionary secretary. An account of this trip was published in the Free Methodist of August 22, 1899, in which Mr. Agnew says: "Mr. Baker, a Johannesburg lawyer, accompanied me, as he wished to see the Bachopi country. He expects to do some mission work there in the future. The day before we left Sister F. Grace Allen, from Fair View mission, arrived to take charge of the school and stay with wife in my absence. Her visit did us all good, and, if war between the Boers and English does not break out, we hope she will come again. Sister Allen is a born. teacher, and the scholars all like her."

MR. AGNEW, MISS ALLEN AND BOYS OF THE SCHOOL AT JOHANNESBURG.