A striking illustration of this is found in the history of the noted
African chief, Africaner, notorious in his day until reached by the
gospel:
In 1819, finding it necessary to go to Cape Town, Moffat
determined to take Africaner with him, attired as his attendant.
The chief was an outlaw, with a price of one thousand
rix-dollars upon his head, but finally agreed tc go. As they
passed through the Dutch farms on his way, Moffat found that he
was supposed to have been long before murdered by Africaner.
One man told him that he had seen Moffat’s bones. Moffat told
a farmer that Africaner (the chief being still in disguise) he
knew to be a truly good man. This the man could not credit, and
said that his one wish was to see that terror before he himself
should die; whereupon Moffat turned and said quietly, pointing
to his mild attendant, “This, then, is Africaner.” The farmer,
looking at the Christian man before him, exclaimed: “O God, what
a miracle of Thy power! What can not Thy grace accomplish!”
That which Africaner exhibited of the power of the gospel in character,
is shown by a host of redeemed ones, such as Jerry McAuley, who through
their careers, have magnified the power that saved them.--“Gloria
Christi.”
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=Gospel Truth Written in Faces=--See FACE, THE, REVEALING THE
GOSPEL.
=Gossip=--See OTHER SIDE, THE.