"With  regard  to  labour  in  heatbon  lands,  let  me  say  it  is  not  an  easy  matter

to  preach  the  Gospel  to  a  heathen  audience  in  such  a  way  as  to  secure  their

Tnmahin  t»  **'t**^^^'^°i  ^  make  tliem  really  understand  what  you  are  aiming  at,

J'withen  difflcTilt.'^'^*^  carry  homo  a  conviction  of  the  truths  you  wish  to  preach.    To

stand  tip  in  a  crowd  here  in  London,  a  chance  crowd,  gathered  from
all  quarters,  and  to  preach,  the  Gospel  effectively,  so  as  to  secure  their  attention,
and  to  carry  home  the  truths  to  their  hearta,  is  not  an  easy  matter ;  but  it  is  still
more  difficult  in  a  heathen  land,  You  have  there  a  people  who  do  not  under-
stand the  language  you  speak — I  mean  that  the  truths  you  Kpeak  of,  are  so
entirely  new  to  them  that  they  iuTariably  attach  other  senses  than  the  correct
one,  to  that  which  you  are  saying,  and  therefore  it  needs  a  man  with  adaptabihty
— with  great  ability  to  realise  the  intellectiml  position  of  the  people  to  whom  he
ia  speaking — to  accoinmodate  himself  to  them,  and  to  realise  in  every  way  what

effecttbewordsheisnsing  will  produce.  Although  an  uneducated  man,
rslc  fi6*a*d.*  without  much  literary  training,  if  lie  is  a  man  of  superior  ability,  and

ha*  the  grace  of  God  in  hia  heart,  may,  under  such  circumstances,
discharge  his  duty  fi2ly  and  effectually,  yet  c<tterig  paribua  it  is  to  be  e-xpected
that  the  man  who  has  had  some  literary  training  will,  under  such  circumstancea,
be  better  fitted  to  adapt  himself  to  the  condition  of  those  among  whom  he  la

fjlaced.  And  I  think  that  the  experience  of  those  who  Imve  laboured  in  heatbea
ands  wUl  go  with  me,  when  I  say,  that  they  have  in  their  own  observation  seen
that  thia  is  bo — that  the  men  who  have  had  more  of  the  preliminary  training
have  greater  versatility  and  adaptabihty  in  their  intercourse  with  those  with
whom  they  come  in  contact  in  heathen  lands.
