CHAPTER IV

Summary

It is of vast importance to notice the first, though apparently obscure indications of the will of Him who, while he

“Rides upon the stormy sky,

And manages the seas,”

condescends to stoop from his throne amidst unapproachable glory, to render means the most feeble and unthought of, the guide and pole-star of his servants, whom he has commissioned to preach the Gospel to every creature.

While Dr. Vanderkemp and Edmonds proceeded to Kafir-land, Messrs. Kicherer, Kramer, and Edwards bent their course to the Zak River, between 400 and 500 miles north-east of Cape Town.

Who would have supposed for a moment that Kicherer's course, which was originally towards Kafirland, would have been diverted by Bushmen-ambassadors, the feeblest, poorest, most degraded and despised of all the sable sons of Ham? It appears that some time previous, while the church at home was engaged in prayer, that the great Head of the church would open a door for his servants whom they were sending forth, a treaty had been made between the Bushmen and Floras Fischer, with other farmers, who had suffered terribly in their flocks and herds, from these depredators of the desert. The Bushmen seeing Florus Fischer, who was a good man, solemnly appeal to Almighty God to witness the transaction, and observing that he was in the habit of assembling his family for worship, morning and evening, were led to inquire into the Divine character, and to solicit a Christian teacher.