Stanley on his Own Conversion.
" I have been in Africa scventeenyears, and I have never met a man who would kill me if I folded my hands. What I wanted and what I have been endeavouring to ask for the poor Africans has been the good offices of Christians, ever since Livingstone taught me those few months I wu.s with him. In 1871 I went to him as prejudiced a* the biggest atheist in London. 1 was out there away from a worldly Avorld. I «iw this solitary old man there, and asked myself, " Why on earth does ho stop here ?" For months after we met I found myself listening to him, and wondering at the old man currying out all that was said in the Bible. Little by little his sympathy for others became contagious. Mine was aroused. Seeing his piety, his gentlenehs, his zeal, his earnestness, and how he went quietly about his business, I was con vei ted by him, although he had not tried fco do it."
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 204, 21 May 1887, Page 6 (Supplement)
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171Stanley on his Own Conversion. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 204, 21 May 1887, Page 6 (Supplement)
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