page_title: Sechele I
section_title: Mission
hierarchical_section_title: Sechele I / Mission
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: christianheralds09unse (find matches) Title: Christian herald and signs of our times Year: 1886 (1880s) Authors: Subjects: Publisher: (New York, The Christian Herald) Contributing Library: Christian Herald Association Digitizing Sponsor: Tisch Library, Tufts University View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: and scholarship have been pressed intoservice in the campaign, and so craftily has itbeen planned that the believer finds his mosteffective weapons wrested from his hand, andhis most conclusive arguments inoperative. Asingularly able work has, however, been preparedby Geerhardus Vos, a Fellow of Princeton Col-lege, who meets the assailants on their ownground. The title of his book is The MosaicOrigin of the Pentateuchal Codes. In it heundertakes to show from internal evidence thatthe Mosaic legislation is a unit, and bears theimpress of the Mosaic age. This, too, whilerigorously excluding every testimony to whichthe assailants demur. The value of his argu-ment is far-reaching because his conclusion in-volves the corollary that the codes were a revela-tion from God and not the result of develop-ment. His reasoning is cogent and ingenious.Every young man whose faith has been disturbedought to read this book. He will see from it 204. THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. April 1. Text Appearing After Image: The Late Rev. W. E. Boardman. (Seepage ig3) Sechele, Chief of the Bechuanas, in State Attire. that, without employing the highest argumentsat his disposal, the believer is able to defend hisposition against the assaults of the foe. Pages263; price, $1.50. Published by A. C. Armstrong&amp;* Son, New York. EPOCHS OF HISTORY. The two small volumes of this well-knownseries now issued deal respectively with epochsof ancient and modern history. One of them,by Charles Sankey, M.A., who is joint editorwith the Rev. G. W. Cox of the Ancient His-tory series, deals with the epoch of the Spartanand Theban supremacies. It covers one of themost important periods in the history of Greece.The other, by Professor Edward E. Morris,deals with the period between I7i3and 1749, andis mainly concerned with events in England. Itis entitled the Early Hanoverians, and belongsto the Modern History section of the series. Inboth cases, however, the principle of dealing horizontally as to time, rather than vertica Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Sechele I a Motswasele "Rra Mokonopi", also known as Setshele, was the ruler of the Kwêna people of Botswana. He was converted to Christianity by David Livingstone and in his role as ruler served as a missionary among his own and other African peoples. According to Livingstone biographer Stephen Tomkins, Sechele was Livingstone's only African convert to Christianity, even though Livingstone himself came to regard Sechele as a "backslider". Sechele led the baKwêna in the Battle of Dimawe in 1852.
context_section_description: Sechele had a profound knowledge of the Bible and a commitment to spreading Christianity. He began with his own people, teaching them to read and introducing them to the Bible. He also travelled many hundreds of miles to evangelise other African peoples. When Moffat led a group of missionaries into Matabeleland in 1859, he discovered that Sechele had preceded him and that the local Ndebele people held Christian prayers.  Moffat's mission had little success as an outbreak of lung disease among the missionaries' oxen resulted in fear of the white missionaries.  Officially, there were no converts among the Ndebele until the 1880s.
  After the departure of Livingstone, Sechele returned to some of his local customs, including rainmaking and polygamy. Missionaries complained that he used his great knowledge of the scriptures to defend his own actions. Neil Parsons, of the University of Botswana, stated that Sechele "did more to propagate Christianity in nineteenth-century southern Africa than virtually any single European missionary".
  Under his leadership, his region became a refuge to other people fleeing persecution, and the numbers that he ruled exceeded 30,000 at the time of his death in 1892.
caption: Christian herald and signs of our times (1886) The Late Rev. W. E. Boardman, Sechele, Chief of the Bechuanas, in State Attire. that, without employing the highest arguments at his disposal, the believer is able to defend his position against the assaults of the foe.
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