Listen to the exciting second half of Robert Moffat's story. The dangers of Africa, the fruit of his mission work, and answering some of the big critiques of his life.
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00:00 --> 00:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Martyrs and Missionaries is a production of Revive Studios.
00:07 --> 00:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Dear Listening to Martyrs and Missionaries, I'm Elise and in every episode, I'll bring you a new marker and or missionary, the cold and the brave.
00:14 --> 00:18 [SPEAKER_00]: In this episode, we're continuing the life of Robert Moffitt, Missionary to South Africa.
00:44 --> 00:53 [SPEAKER_00]: When we last left our hero Robert Moffitt, he was productive, but he was lonely, he wanted a wife, specifically he wanted Mary Smith.
00:53 --> 01:02 [SPEAKER_00]: But sadly for him, Mary Smith's parents did not want her to marry Robert Moffitt, because as you can imagine, she's the only daughter.
01:02 --> 01:04 [SPEAKER_00]: He lives in South Africa.
01:04 --> 01:06 [SPEAKER_00]: South Africa has a high mortality rate.
01:07 --> 01:10 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not a great place to send your young daughter in the 1800s.
01:12 --> 01:18 [SPEAKER_00]: You can understand their reluctance to do this, but something changes and reading from the book.
01:18 --> 01:27 [SPEAKER_00]: In the early days of December 1819, Miss Smith of Duncan Field on board the ship British Colony was drawing near the Cape and her future husband.
01:27 --> 01:38 [SPEAKER_00]: After two and a half of the most painful anxiety she wrote to Robert's parents, I have the tender mercy of God obtained permission of my dear parents to proceed to join your dear son in his arduous work.
01:39 --> 01:42 [SPEAKER_00]: My father had persisted in saying that I should never have his consent.
01:42 --> 01:45 [SPEAKER_00]: My dear mother has uniformly asserted that it would break her heart.
01:46 --> 01:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Notwithstanding all this, they both yesterday calmly resigned me into the hands of the Lord, declaring that they do not any longer withhold me.
01:54 --> 02:02 [SPEAKER_00]: She kept it journal as she was heading towards her future husband and the entire journal is just filled with this school girl like energy and excitement.
02:02 --> 02:12 [SPEAKER_00]: She's writing about every single little thing that she saw, like dolphins, and then the dead calm they experienced were like they couldn't move at all for three days at least.
02:13 --> 02:18 [SPEAKER_00]: and then a rotting shark carcass that was on the deck and the stunk up the whole place.
02:19 --> 02:25 [SPEAKER_00]: She was on this ship for three months and it seems like they had a captain who was a bit of a killed joy.
02:26 --> 02:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Because she said, the voyage was by the Cape Verde Islands and St. Helena.
02:30 --> 02:35 [SPEAKER_00]: But another place did the captain allow his passengers to go ashore to stretch their legs.
02:35 --> 02:50 [SPEAKER_00]: And when he had refused to request from the ladies to dance for the sake of exercise, Mary records another stir with the captain with sales torn a big leak unwashed passengers and an almost mutinous crew with a British colony limped into Table Bay, December 6th, 1817.
02:53 --> 02:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you caught Cape Verde Islands and you think I mispronounced it.
02:57 --> 02:57 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't.
02:57 --> 03:00 [SPEAKER_00]: I think I mispronounced it, but I didn't.
03:00 --> 03:00 [SPEAKER_00]: I looked this up.
03:01 --> 03:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Apparently it is Cape Verde or Kabul Verde if you actually live in Cape Verde.
03:07 --> 03:08 [SPEAKER_00]: But it doesn't matter.
03:08 --> 03:10 [SPEAKER_00]: I watched several different videos.
03:10 --> 03:17 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't care how you pronounce it, but the English American pronunciation is Cape Verde, even though it seems more Cape Verde.
03:17 --> 03:24 [SPEAKER_00]: Even though it seems weird, you want to put the verity on there, like a good verity sauce, but it's wrong, so don't fret, it's okay.
03:26 --> 03:31 [SPEAKER_00]: The two love birds were married three weeks after Mary arrived in St. George's church in Cape Town.
03:31 --> 03:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Both of them are 24 years old, and they settled into a married bliss of sorts, because they don't have a house yet.
03:37 --> 03:41 [SPEAKER_00]: But Mary had already settled into a habit of worrying over Moffitt, as she always called them.
03:41 --> 03:42 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's very cute.
03:43 --> 03:48 [SPEAKER_00]: But she was looking forward to setting up a little slice of Victorian England in their African home.
03:49 --> 03:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Robert writes a very sweet letter to Mary's parents that reads, Mary, my own dear Mary is now far distant from a land in dear to her.
03:57 --> 03:59 [SPEAKER_00]: And from you, but let this come for you.
03:59 --> 04:09 [SPEAKER_00]: She is united to one who speaks as he feels when he promises to be father, mother and husband to Mary, and will never forget the sacrifice you have made and committing to his future care you're only daughter.
04:10 --> 04:15 [SPEAKER_00]: These newlyweds now needed to get from Cape Town to their new mission station at Kermon.
04:16 --> 04:19 [SPEAKER_00]: For a honeymoon, ideally, you would travel alone.
04:19 --> 04:22 [SPEAKER_00]: But that was not going to happen, even though they hoped it would happen.
04:23 --> 04:31 [SPEAKER_00]: There was a LMS director, a one-dimensional society director who was in town and wanted to accompany the mothets to their mission station.
04:32 --> 04:39 [SPEAKER_00]: And this man is the quintessential Englishman that you picture from like a jungle movie during this era.
04:40 --> 04:47 [SPEAKER_00]: He honestly reminds me of the dad like Jane's dad from Tarzan, and he would most certainly be played for comic relief.
04:48 --> 04:59 [SPEAKER_00]: But he is an interesting character, he was a botanist, and so it always go around with this little sketch journal he had and he was recording every single thing that he saw.
04:59 --> 05:13 [SPEAKER_00]: which would come in handy because he didn't have publishing like a series of journals and we do have some of his quotes in here as well so he was a very astute man but he's not the kind of guy you want accompanying you on a couple months long journey on your honeymoon
05:15 --> 05:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Mary wrote down that for 10 days, she never saw a house, but as they moved along the banks of the Gomka River, she writes home to her father about the long thorned memosa, which were certainly very beautiful, and an old tree falling with age, and from the root, a young, flourishing, large tree, and both attached to each other.
05:32 --> 05:37 [SPEAKER_00]: There are a few other things, except succulent plants and everything in the desert, except the memosa's has a blue and yellow
05:39 --> 05:41 [SPEAKER_00]: We have scarcely seen any grass for a fortnight.
05:41 --> 05:46 [SPEAKER_00]: When the wagons still at noon, the timbers were too hot to touch, and the thermometer ran to 100.
05:48 --> 05:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Muffet relates this story about John Campbell, who was both a humorous character and a little bit of a tragic figure.
05:55 --> 06:06 [SPEAKER_00]: He said that, in the new time he Campbell was driven out of his wagon by flies, only to step into an ancness, who's alarmed in habitants, salied forth and in less than two minutes completely covered Muffet's leg.
06:07 --> 06:15 [SPEAKER_00]: The little man, short, ugly and shrewd, often sat with a young couple under the captain, taking his pinch of snuff and retelling his Parsons anecdotes as the wagon lurched and shunted
06:16 --> 06:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Campbell had a weakness, so Moffat said, for Mr. Wine or Mineheter Brandy, he is very quarrelsome as such seasons.
06:22 --> 06:28 [SPEAKER_00]: My dear partner and I have often mourned and lamented the more that we were not the only spectators such human frailty.
06:29 --> 06:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Fifty years later, though, when presented with John Campbell's old snuff box, Moffat warmed to remember and said, good old Johnny.
06:36 --> 06:50 [SPEAKER_00]: And the long hours in the wagon on his honeymoon journey, I have often seen him take a pinch and sometimes two of the subject or waitie, and in the tin to outside the tin to on the other side of a thin partition, he might be heard to say, oh, I never was in such a world as this.
06:52 --> 07:00 [SPEAKER_00]: I recently learned about something that is called a type 2 story, where at the time it's kind of unpleasant, even a bit awful.
07:00 --> 07:05 [SPEAKER_00]: But when you look back on it, it's something that you remember and you kind of treasure.
07:05 --> 07:06 [SPEAKER_00]: It's one of those things that grows you.
07:07 --> 07:11 [SPEAKER_00]: And I believe that this honeymoon experience with John Campbell is exactly a type 2 story.
07:12 --> 07:19 [SPEAKER_00]: I also think he is just another example of some of the most memorable characters that she meet on the mission field and there are so many of them.
07:19 --> 07:27 [SPEAKER_00]: I would say that I mean to be fair, everybody who comes out to the mission field is a little bit quirky in their own ways.
07:28 --> 07:34 [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes people you think, oh, I don't know that this person's maybe a bit too quirky, they could become your best friend.
07:34 --> 07:40 [SPEAKER_00]: And even if they don't become your best friend, at least you'll have plenty of stories, type two stories maybe, but stories all the same.
07:43 --> 07:46 [SPEAKER_00]: As they got closer to Kermon, they stayed for a time at Greek Quattown.
07:46 --> 07:50 [SPEAKER_00]: I believe it is pronounced Greek Quatt, but if you are South African, I could be saying it wrong.
07:50 --> 07:51 [SPEAKER_00]: So, my apologies.
07:52 --> 08:06 [SPEAKER_00]: But this town features quite a lot in Moffitt's story, and it seemed to be kind of a nearby vacation spot, or it was also a place of refuge where things got a little bit too hostile or hot or unstable on the mission station.
08:06 --> 08:09 [SPEAKER_00]: People would go to Greek Quattown to kind of recoup and wait things out.
08:10 --> 08:22 [SPEAKER_00]: and it was originally called Clearwater, but then John Campbell in 1813 renamed it to recognize the Greek law people and the Greek law were or or because they were still around.
08:22 --> 08:31 [SPEAKER_00]: They are a group that is blended with Dutch and African heritage and these these African heritage it comes from both local tribes and also the Kuay Kuay people.
08:32 --> 08:38 [SPEAKER_00]: And during Moffitt's time, they were a really interesting blend of these two cultures, and they had a really unique sense of fashion.
08:38 --> 08:40 [SPEAKER_00]: They would blend African and European clothing together.
08:41 --> 08:44 [SPEAKER_00]: They also had their own currency, and were kind of their own thing.
08:45 --> 08:56 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's funny to me because the local tribes actually didn't much care for them, because I thought they were a little bit too hoody-twenty they put on airs, but many of them would owe their lives to the intervention of the Greek laws.
08:56 --> 09:00 [SPEAKER_00]: in the coming years and we'll tell a couple of those stories later on.
09:00 --> 09:03 [SPEAKER_00]: They finally arrived in the summer of 1820 at Kermon.
09:03 --> 09:05 [SPEAKER_00]: They were welcomed by the two missionaries that were already there.
09:05 --> 09:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Mr. James Reed, who I believe I mentioned in part one, he is the man who kind of got untapped, maybe unfairly by this sign-off this other guy started in.
09:15 --> 09:20 [SPEAKER_00]: He is there as well as a Mr. Hamilton and they're also greeted by the chief whose name is Mathibi and a
09:23 --> 09:27 [SPEAKER_00]: The office had come to replace Mr. Read and we're working alongside Mr. Hamilton.
09:28 --> 09:34 [SPEAKER_00]: I think I mentioned this on the last episode, but in case I didn't, this entire region consisted of the Swanna people.
09:34 --> 09:39 [SPEAKER_00]: And today there are Swanna people in Botswana, and also in South Africa.
09:39 --> 09:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Many of them speak and spoke Sesswanna, which made it the ideal language to learn, because it reached such a massive group of people with the gospel.
09:48 --> 09:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Today there are about 4 million speakers in South Africa of Sesswanna, and most likely not an insignificant amount in Moffitt's day.
09:57 --> 10:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Cecil Northcott, who wrote one of the books that I've been using for research on this episode, he writes about how John Campbell kept a lengthy journal and he writes about the intricate governmental system of this one of people and I read a little bit of that because I just feel like it gives us a good idea of what everything looks like in 1813.
10:16 --> 10:22 [SPEAKER_00]: In 1813, Campbell thought there were as many as 50 organized words in the town of Kurim on for 7 people.
10:23 --> 10:27 [SPEAKER_00]: And at the new mission station or new Kurim on in 1820, there were 29.
10:27 --> 10:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Each war was a combination of households under the leadership of a headman.
10:31 --> 10:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Most of whom were related to him, and he had executive and judicial authority over the group, and stood between them and the chief, each household, and its living enclosures surrounded by a wooden fence or an earthen wall, and expanded according to the number of married women in the household, because polygamy was practiced by the swan of people, with the first wife being known as the great or chief wife.
10:53 --> 10:56 [SPEAKER_00]: This one, by and large, were a farming nomadic people.
10:56 --> 10:59 [SPEAKER_00]: The women took care of the crops and the men took care of the cattle.
11:00 --> 11:04 [SPEAKER_00]: And surrounding everything they did, there was this system of magic.
11:04 --> 11:07 [SPEAKER_00]: And Cecil goes on to kind of explain this through moth it.
11:07 --> 11:13 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, fields and seed corn, for instance, were doctored for fertility and protection against pests and wizards.
11:14 --> 11:18 [SPEAKER_00]: The agricultural season was inaugurated by special rainmaking ceremonies performed by the
11:24 --> 11:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Certain people, known as Dengaka, were specialists in the art of magic.
11:28 --> 11:39 [SPEAKER_00]: They treated the sick, divine the riddles of the present and the future, and through an occupation or other use of medicines, endowed people, livestock, fields, and dwellings with good fortune.
11:39 --> 11:41 [SPEAKER_00]: And protected them from sorcery.
11:41 --> 11:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Any misfortune, especially sickness or death, was generally attributed to the mevel-evilant use of magic.
11:46 --> 11:51 [SPEAKER_00]: And the culprit, if found, was severely punished, and might even be killed by the order of the chief.
11:53 --> 12:02 [SPEAKER_00]: And on the subject of religion, there seem to be no concept, at least, not any that could really be connected to any of the Christian ideas of religion.
12:02 --> 12:07 [SPEAKER_00]: And there were no places of worship, and there didn't seem to be any reverence of the ancestors, either.
12:08 --> 12:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Muffet wrote.
12:09 --> 12:26 [SPEAKER_00]: To tell them the gravest of them that there was a creator, the governor of heaven and earth, or the fall of man, or the redemption of the world, the resurrection of the dead, and immortality beyond the grave, what to tell them would appear to be more fabulous, extravagant, and ludicrous than their own stories about lions, hyenas, and jackals.
12:27 --> 12:37 [SPEAKER_00]: They did seem to have a word for a god-like figure, Medemo or Marimo, but this wasn't the same god that we would kind of consider to be in the Christian sense.
12:37 --> 12:49 [SPEAKER_00]: He was more of a kind of cunning, malicious guy that wasn't really capable of doing any good and was someone you needed to appease by slaughtering ox and if the rain wasn't coming that sort of thing.
12:50 --> 12:58 [SPEAKER_00]: there was not really a connection to the loving goodness of a God like we would have in the Christian sense.
12:59 --> 13:05 [SPEAKER_00]: And these thoughts on religion were written by Moffitt 20 years into his experience among the swanim.
13:06 --> 13:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Now here and I have a couple more of these that I will bring up as we go on because I feel as though it is important to address the attacks that come against Moffitt because I find
13:19 --> 13:30 [SPEAKER_00]: So Cecil Northcott writes down that he thinks that Mothit was hasty and insensitive in his religious findings among the Swana, because Livingston and a man named W.C. Willabee disagree with him.
13:31 --> 13:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Now Livingston, after Living with the Swana, for about two years, this would be 20 plus years after Mothit had been there.
13:38 --> 13:43 [SPEAKER_00]: He wrote, wondering whether the people were really so far sunk as it been represented.
13:43 --> 13:49 [SPEAKER_00]: I heard Mr. Moffett say in England that the Swanna really had no conscience until it was formed by missionaries.
13:49 --> 13:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Besides other fragments of knowledge, which I have found among them, they seem to have had the idea of the future existence clearly.
13:56 --> 14:13 [SPEAKER_00]: And here will pause because Livingston came into the mission field a bit Hottie himself later on he actually apologized because when he comes to the field and he sees what the missionaries have done He's kind of like all you guys aren't really doing enough I feel like this there's so much more that could be done
14:14 --> 14:24 [SPEAKER_00]: And then when he begins his frontier, explorations and goes way out there, he says, oh my word, I had no idea that the missionaries had done so much.
14:24 --> 14:30 [SPEAKER_00]: So this thing that was being written two years after Heath of the Swanam is before he goes out to the frontier.
14:31 --> 14:36 [SPEAKER_00]: So I would be curious to see if he had the exact same thoughts later on in his career.
14:37 --> 14:55 [SPEAKER_00]: And in this man named WC Willaby, he comes 60 years after Moffitt's arrival, and North Coss said that after 25 years among this Wana, Willaby was convinced that there was a universal belief in survival after death amongst them, but no evidence that the Bantu or the Swan of People have considered the idea of immortality.
14:56 --> 15:05 [SPEAKER_00]: The word Medemo was used of Indians and Cestral Spirit, and if you ask one of these people what Medemo, he is speaking to in his prayers, he will tell you the name of someone long dead.
15:05 --> 15:14 [SPEAKER_00]: If you ask him who made the world, he will reply to Mademo, and if you ask him the name of this Mademo who made the world, he will tell you that this is just the great Mademo.
15:14 --> 15:17 [SPEAKER_00]: But the people never thought of praying to the great spirit directly.
15:17 --> 15:23 [SPEAKER_00]: They prayed to the spirits of their ancestors who have gone forward into the town of the great chief of the spirit world.
15:23 --> 15:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so having said all of that, I do wonder this is a bit of a chicken and egg situation, because perhaps when Moffitt arrived, there were religious ideas were not so clear.
15:33 --> 15:35 [SPEAKER_00]: They had an entirely oral history.
15:35 --> 15:39 [SPEAKER_00]: There was nothing written down whatsoever before Moffitt arrived.
15:39 --> 15:43 [SPEAKER_00]: He helped him create the alphabet and printed materials for them for the very first time.
15:45 --> 15:55 [SPEAKER_00]: So it is very possible and I think very likely that their thoughts evolved to include a more specific religious structure after exposure to the missionaries like Muffet said.
15:56 --> 16:03 [SPEAKER_00]: And this has been number one of three answers to critiques of Moffitt, but we look at back to the story and address number two in a little while.
16:03 --> 16:09 [SPEAKER_00]: The Moffitts have been settling into Curima for the last two months and decided to visit some of the other nearby tribes.
16:09 --> 16:16 [SPEAKER_00]: And the people they visited had never seen a white person before and were really curious about them, especially Mary's dress.
16:17 --> 16:30 [SPEAKER_00]: And as they traveled, they carried with them a full-cutlery set, so plates, bowls, silverware, the whole setup, and they would pull them out for every meal, and it's just so quintessentially British that I love it, it's wonderful.
16:31 --> 16:36 [SPEAKER_00]: You would never see that nowadays, but to be honest, maybe we should bring it back and be kind of funny.
16:36 --> 16:39 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's just keeping that little bit of culture alive with you.
16:40 --> 16:44 [SPEAKER_00]: A few months later, their first daughter, Little Mary, was born and I'll give you a bit of a spoiler.
16:45 --> 16:47 [SPEAKER_00]: She is the one who will later marry David Livingston.
16:48 --> 16:58 [SPEAKER_00]: And around this same time, they also said goodbye to John Campbell and to Mr. Reed, who headed back to Cape Town and to England, and now it is just truly the Moffitts and Mr. Hamilton.
16:59 --> 17:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Daily life, among the Swanna, is tough.
17:03 --> 17:05 [SPEAKER_00]: There is so much petty theft.
17:09 --> 17:16 [SPEAKER_00]: The ground, which the chief had given the missionaries for a garden and had been painstaking lit irrigated, the women headed by the chief's wife encroached upon it.
17:17 --> 17:25 [SPEAKER_00]: And to save contention, the point was conceded, the corn when it was ripened was stolen, and the sheep either taken out of the fold at night or driven off when grazing in the daytime.
17:25 --> 17:29 [SPEAKER_00]: No tool or household utensil could be left about for a moment or it would disappear.
17:31 --> 17:44 [SPEAKER_00]: One day, Mr. Hamilton, who had at that time no mill to grind corn sat down and with much labor in perspiration, by the means of two stones, ground sufficient meal in a half a day to make a loaf which should serve him, being then alone for about eight days.
17:45 --> 17:48 [SPEAKER_00]: He needed and baked his gigantic loaf, put it on his shelf and went to the chapel.
17:49 --> 17:54 [SPEAKER_00]: He returned to the evening with a keen appetite and a pleasant anticipation of enjoying his course homemade bread.
17:55 --> 18:04 [SPEAKER_00]: But upon opening the door of his hut and casting his eyes to the shelf, he saw the loaf of bread had gone, someone had forced open the little window of the hut, got in and stolen the bread.
18:05 --> 18:15 [SPEAKER_00]: On another occasion, Mrs. Moffett, with a baby in her arms, begged very humbly of a woman who just to be kind enough to move out of her temporary kitchen, that she might shut it as usual before going to the place of worship.
18:16 --> 18:29 [SPEAKER_00]: The woman seized a piece of wood to hurl it Mrs. Moffett's head, who therefore escaped to the house of God, living the intruder in undisturbed possession of her kitchen, and any contents with of which she would not hesitate to appropriate for her own use.
18:30 --> 18:34 [SPEAKER_00]: In addition to all of this, the people had zero interest in the gospel.
18:34 --> 18:36 [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't that they were even necessarily hostile.
18:36 --> 18:38 [SPEAKER_00]: They were just indifferent.
18:38 --> 18:44 [SPEAKER_00]: In August of 1822, Mary wrote, we have no prosperity in the work, not the least sign of good being done.
18:45 --> 18:48 [SPEAKER_00]: This one has seen more careless than ever and seldom enter the church.
18:49 --> 18:54 [SPEAKER_00]: The Movets were working with the Swanna people, but of course there are other people in the region.
18:54 --> 18:57 [SPEAKER_00]: And one of those people was known as the SON people.
18:58 --> 19:02 [SPEAKER_00]: And they had the barbers' practice of leaving their second infirm in the elements to die.
19:02 --> 19:05 [SPEAKER_00]: If a mother died and childbirth, her babies were buried with her.
19:06 --> 19:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Muffet came across a group preparing to bury a mother with her babies, rescued the babies, and then took them home to raise them.
19:12 --> 19:22 [SPEAKER_00]: And their names were Sarah and John, but it couldn't find much else about them except for the fact that they did make it to adulthood, and it seems that John may have traveled with the Muffets to England as a young man.
19:24 --> 19:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, Martha found this as one language incredibly difficult to learn and he complained to Mary that he didn't know what to do and just how hard the work was among the people because they just didn't care.
19:34 --> 19:40 [SPEAKER_00]: And Mary answered them and said, the gospel's not yet been preached to them in their own tongue in which they were born.
19:40 --> 19:46 [SPEAKER_00]: They've only heard it through interpreters and interpreters who have themselves know just understanding no real love of the truth.
19:47 --> 19:53 [SPEAKER_00]: We must not expect a blessing till you are able from your own lips and in their language to bring it through to their ears into their hearts.
19:54 --> 20:01 [SPEAKER_00]: From that hour, Moffat said in relating the conversation, I gave myself with untiring diligence to the acquisition of the language.
20:02 --> 20:07 [SPEAKER_00]: And an example of exactly how difficult it was to communicate deeper truths through an interpreter.
20:07 --> 20:17 [SPEAKER_00]: This sentence, the salvation of the soul is a very important subject was rendered by one of his translators as the salvation of the soul is a very great sec.
20:18 --> 20:24 [SPEAKER_00]: So, completely unintelligible, and you can see why it was necessary to have his own understanding of the language.
20:25 --> 20:37 [SPEAKER_00]: So in this endeavor, Moth is started journeying to nearby tribes to practice speaking and preaching and says, Swana, but he would often travel five miles out there, and there would be nobody who wanted to listen to the gospel.
20:37 --> 20:47 [SPEAKER_00]: And the only real edification the missionaries at Kermon got came from the once weekly services they held in Dutch for themselves and the few Christian Koi-Koi families who were with them.
20:48 --> 20:59 [SPEAKER_00]: So there wasn't even an English service for these English missionaries, so even the best you're getting is still not your original language, so I imagine that would have to have an impact on them to some extent as well.
21:00 --> 21:05 [SPEAKER_00]: And this whole time in the background, there's been this drought that's been going on for years.
21:06 --> 21:11 [SPEAKER_00]: And the rainmaker couldn't make it rain because Muffet had a back of salt in his wagon or because of the chapel bell.
21:12 --> 21:20 [SPEAKER_00]: And everything came to a headman evening when an ominous group including the chief gathered near the Muffet house to expel them using whatever means necessary.
21:21 --> 21:35 [SPEAKER_00]: And Moffitt had been fixing a wagon wheel and Mary was watching from a doorway of the cottage with little Mary on her hip, and Moffitt cried out to the street who was now surrounding him and said, We even did felt most reluctant to leave, and are now more than ever resolved to abide by our post.
21:36 --> 21:39 [SPEAKER_00]: We pity you for you know not what you do, we have suffered it is true.
21:40 --> 21:44 [SPEAKER_00]: And he who servants we are has directed us in his word when they persecute you in one city,
21:44 --> 21:45 [SPEAKER_00]: flee to another.
21:45 --> 21:51 [SPEAKER_00]: But although we have suffered, we do not consider all that has been done to us by the people, amounts to persecution.
21:51 --> 21:54 [SPEAKER_00]: We are prepared to expect it from such as no no better.
21:55 --> 21:58 [SPEAKER_00]: If you are resolved to ridger cells of us, you must resort to stronger measures.
21:58 --> 22:03 [SPEAKER_00]: For our hearts are with you, you may shed blood or burn us out, we know you will not touch our wives and children.
22:04 --> 22:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Then throwing open his waistcoat, Muffet stood tall and fearless, now then he said, if you will, drive your spears to my heart, and when you have slain me, my companions will know that the hour is come for them to depart.
22:15 --> 22:25 [SPEAKER_00]: And at these words, the chief looked at his companions remarking with a significant shake of his head, these men must have ten lives when they are so fearless of death that it must be something in immortality.
22:26 --> 22:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Muffet pitifully observes the meeting broke up, and they left us no doubt fully impressed with the idea that we were impossible men.
22:34 --> 22:36 [SPEAKER_00]: Moffa had wanted to visit a chief, his name was Makaba.
22:36 --> 22:43 [SPEAKER_00]: He lived 200 miles north of Kariman, and he wanted to open a dialogue among the various tribes who were not always the friendliest of each other.
22:43 --> 22:49 [SPEAKER_00]: And of course, through these avenues be able to share the gospel with the people and also to practice, said Swana.
22:49 --> 22:51 [SPEAKER_00]: So there are multiple reasons why you'd want to do this thing.
22:52 --> 22:59 [SPEAKER_00]: And as he prepared a travel, he heard rumors that the Maintity were on the move, and not Maintity, even though that's understandable.
22:59 --> 23:01 [SPEAKER_00]: I actually read it as Maintity and Taluk, a bit closer.
23:01 --> 23:02 [SPEAKER_00]: It is Maintity.
23:02 --> 23:11 [SPEAKER_00]: They're a group of people who had been experiencing quite a bit of upheaval in the recent years, and they've been driven out, and they were very warlike and fearsome.
23:11 --> 23:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe cannibals was the rumor, but their unique name supposedly comes from their female chief, who was no longer chief at this point, but they adopted her name.
23:20 --> 23:27 [SPEAKER_00]: I think Mancote is technically like the Anglicanized version of that word, but this was what they were called, and they were not friendly.
23:28 --> 23:30 [SPEAKER_00]: They didn't like people, and they were out to conquer.
23:31 --> 23:33 [SPEAKER_00]: And it makes things even more difficult.
23:33 --> 23:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Mithibi did not want Mothi to visit Makaba even after Mothi had received an invitation.
23:38 --> 23:43 [SPEAKER_00]: And so none of his people were allowed to accompany him and he just had to take a few of his own guys.
23:44 --> 23:49 [SPEAKER_00]: And as they're traveling along, there are more rumors of Mithiti attacks.
23:49 --> 24:09 [SPEAKER_00]: And so Muffet decides to turn around, he hurries back, he tells Mathibi, and they're hearing all these horrible things about what's happening to these tribes, their violent, their brutal, they're doing all these horrible things of people and even possibly cannibalizing them, which doesn't seem to be true, but you just don't know everything's coming at you from, you know, other word of mouth, and you don't know what's going on.
24:09 --> 24:24 [SPEAKER_00]: But Mothit needs to figure out what to do, because if it doesn't intervene at all, the Mothit year obviously much stronger than Mothitbe's people, and honestly, a lot of the tribes in the region were going to be overwhelmed entirely by the Mothitbe if something wasn't done.
24:24 --> 24:28 [SPEAKER_00]: So Mothit goes to Greek Quattown to ask for help from their chief.
24:28 --> 24:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Their chief is a friend to missionaries, and it seems to be a Christian, so he agreed to rally his people and to help.
24:34 --> 24:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Muffet then attempts to parlay with the mantatee, but they have zero interest in instead make moves that they are going to rush forward in attack.
24:41 --> 24:47 [SPEAKER_00]: And when the battle finally does happen, that combines swana and greekaw forces, easily defeat the mantatees.
24:47 --> 24:54 [SPEAKER_00]: But then the swana are pretty angry, and they go among the camp of the mantatee and begin wanting to kill the women and the children.
24:54 --> 24:58 [SPEAKER_00]: And so Muffet rushes in on horseback to play with them to spare the innocent.
24:58 --> 25:04 [SPEAKER_00]: They do listen for the most part, but in the attempt of trying to save others' lives, he almost lost his own.
25:04 --> 25:10 [SPEAKER_00]: He was stuck between a literal rock and a hard place with a manatee warrior between him and escape.
25:10 --> 25:14 [SPEAKER_00]: He was on arm because he didn't believe in attacking people or being violent.
25:15 --> 25:21 [SPEAKER_00]: And so he was only saved because there was a Greek war who was nearby, who was a very skilled shot and saves his life.
25:23 --> 25:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Moffitt's actions in rallying the Greek law not only saved the swanna but also the man to tea because they would have been rounded up and utterly destroyed if it wasn't for Moffitt's efforts even after the battle he tells them not to chase after the man to tea instead many of the women and children were taken to the missionary station.
25:42 --> 25:58 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a turning point for Moffitt and this one of people who knew that the missionaries could have easily retreated back to Cape Town and then left them to be destroyed and Moffitt ever the practical man uses this current favorable mood to procure a better spot for the mission station.
25:59 --> 26:08 [SPEAKER_00]: It was a place eight miles away about three miles below the Kurim on Fountain, and they found that it was the best place for a mission station for hundreds of miles away.
26:09 --> 26:16 [SPEAKER_00]: And so arrangements were made with the chiefs, so that about two miles of this Kurim on Valley should be the property of the London Missionary Society.
26:17 --> 26:24 [SPEAKER_00]: And then proper payment was going to be made as soon as Martha returned from Cape Town, a place which he contemplated visiting very shortly.
26:25 --> 26:39 [SPEAKER_00]: And at the start of 1824, the moffits didn't need to find themselves in Cape Town, because Mary had been suffering from some medical issues that needed big city help, and also they needed to iron out the details of this new mission spot with the LMS directors.
26:40 --> 26:50 [SPEAKER_00]: And within they took Mithibi's son and another young chief who were overhauled by everything that they saw, and it took a great deal of convincing to get these young men to step aboard a ship in the bay.
26:51 --> 26:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Quoting from the book, they enormous size of the hull, the height of its mass, the splendid cabin and the deep hull were each in all objects of wonder.
26:59 --> 27:04 [SPEAKER_00]: And when they saw a boy mount the rain and ascend to the mast head, the astonishment was complete.
27:04 --> 27:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Do these waterhouses unyoke like oxen every night they inquired?
27:08 --> 27:11 [SPEAKER_00]: And also, do they grays in the sea to keep them alive?
27:11 --> 27:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Being asked what they thought of a ship and full sail, which was then entering the harbor they replied.
27:16 --> 27:20 [SPEAKER_00]: We have no thoughts here, we hope to think again when we arrive on the shore.
27:21 --> 27:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Mary soon improved in Cape Town.
27:22 --> 27:25 [SPEAKER_00]: They were able to make the two month journey back to Kermon.
27:25 --> 27:30 [SPEAKER_00]: And when they arrived, they found everything in order and Mr. Hamilton was quietly and patiently working away.
27:31 --> 27:36 [SPEAKER_00]: And later on, in July of the same year, Mothad is finally able to visit with Makaba.
27:36 --> 27:40 [SPEAKER_00]: He ends up leaving with a group of Greekwaw hunters who were going to go hunt down some elephants.
27:41 --> 27:44 [SPEAKER_00]: And they skirted the Kalahari on their way to get there.
27:44 --> 27:45 [SPEAKER_00]: And I cannot.
27:46 --> 28:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Leave this unmentioned, the only reason that I know the Kawahara you're high was first introduced to the Kawahari was from Mircat Manor, a little group, a little clan called the Whiskers, and they were wonderful, such sweet little little Mircats, and rest in peace flour.
28:01 --> 28:08 [SPEAKER_00]: And there's all I had to say about the Kawahari, except for the fact that it's very brutal and they ran out of water until they had to go to a different village.
28:08 --> 28:13 [SPEAKER_00]: And there's a whole lot of things we could say about the Kawahari, but we will leave it at Mircats.
28:14 --> 28:18 [SPEAKER_00]: So when they get to McCobba's village, they are given a royal reception.
28:18 --> 28:26 [SPEAKER_00]: He remarks with a laugh that he wondered why they should trust themselves unarmed in a town of such a villain as he was reported to be.
28:26 --> 28:30 [SPEAKER_00]: He entertained Muffin and his party royally declaring, my friends, I am perfectly happy.
28:30 --> 28:33 [SPEAKER_00]: My heart is wider than milk because you have visited me.
28:33 --> 28:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Today, I am a great man.
28:35 --> 28:40 [SPEAKER_00]: You are wise and bold to come and see with your own eyes, and laugh the testimony of my enemies.
28:41 --> 28:44 [SPEAKER_00]: And the phrase, my heart is as wide as milk is so cool.
28:44 --> 28:46 [SPEAKER_00]: It's actually used by two different chiefs in this story.
28:46 --> 28:48 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think we should totally start using it.
28:48 --> 28:49 [SPEAKER_00]: We kind of fun.
28:50 --> 28:54 [SPEAKER_00]: But when he tried to talk about spiritual things with Macabah, he tried this on several different occasions.
28:54 --> 28:56 [SPEAKER_00]: And each time he was quietly rebuffed.
28:57 --> 29:10 [SPEAKER_00]: But when he was finally given a formal reception for a hearing on the subject of religion, he found the monarch seated among a large number of his principal men, all engaged either preparing skins, cutting them, sewing mantels, or telling news.
29:10 --> 29:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Sitting down beside him and amidst his nobles and counselors, Moffa stated that his object was to tell him news.
29:17 --> 29:20 [SPEAKER_00]: The missionary spoke of God of the Savior, but the words fell upon death years.
29:21 --> 29:26 [SPEAKER_00]: One of them in sitting near, however, seems struck with the character of the Redeemer, and especially with his miracles.
29:27 --> 29:32 [SPEAKER_00]: On a hearing that he had raised the dead, the man said, what an excellent doctor he must have been to raise the dead.
29:33 --> 29:38 [SPEAKER_00]: And this led to a description of his power and how that power would be exercised at the last day in the resurrection.
29:39 --> 29:42 [SPEAKER_00]: The year of the monarch caught the sound of the resurrection from the dead.
29:42 --> 29:44 [SPEAKER_00]: What, he exclaimed an astonishment?
29:45 --> 29:46 [SPEAKER_00]: What are these words about?
29:46 --> 29:48 [SPEAKER_00]: The dead, the dead arise?
29:48 --> 29:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, all the dead shall arise.
29:50 --> 29:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Will my father arise?
29:51 --> 29:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, your father will also arise.
29:53 --> 29:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Will all the slain and battle arise?
29:57 --> 30:02 [SPEAKER_00]: and will all that have been killed and devoured by lions, crocodiles, hyenas, and other things revive again?
30:03 --> 30:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, and come to judgment, and will those whose bodies have been left to waste and to whither on the desert plains and cascadder to the winds again arise?
30:10 --> 30:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Ask the king with a kind of triumph, as though this time he had fixed the missionary?
30:14 --> 30:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, he answered with emphasis, not one will be left behind,
30:18 --> 30:30 [SPEAKER_00]: After looking at his visitor for a few moments, Makaba turned to his people, saying in a voice, Harky, wise men, whoever is among you, the wise as to past generations, they'd your ears every year such strange and unheard of news.
30:31 --> 30:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Receiving an answer in the negative, he laid a his hand on Moffitt's breast and said, Father, I love you much, your visit and your presence have made my heart as white as milk.
30:39 --> 30:44 [SPEAKER_00]: The words from your mouth are as sweet as honey, but the words of a resurrection are too great to be heard.
30:44 --> 30:46 [SPEAKER_00]: I did not wish to hear again about the dead rising.
30:47 --> 30:49 [SPEAKER_00]: The dead cannot arise, the dead must not arise.
30:50 --> 30:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Why, inquired the missionary, can so great a man refuse knowledge and turn away from wisdom?
30:55 --> 30:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Tell me my friend, why must I not add to words and speak of a resurrection?
31:00 --> 31:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Raising and uncovering his arm, which have been strong in battle and shaking his hand as a quest of quittering a spear, he replied, I have slained my thousands and shall they arise.
31:10 --> 31:24 [SPEAKER_00]: After this, Moffat didn't get anywhere with McCoban, so he headed back, and the men from Greek Quattown were planning on, obviously, hunting elephants, but they decided very suddenly that they no longer wanted to do this, and that they would come back with Moffat.
31:24 --> 31:34 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's a really good thing that they did, because the mantites were not totally defeated, and they had begun writing again, and had targeted a nearby town of the bar along people.
31:34 --> 31:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Muffet and the Greek walls are able to come to the aid of the town.
31:37 --> 31:41 [SPEAKER_00]: They chase away the mantites into the desert where it seems that they finally all die off.
31:42 --> 31:46 [SPEAKER_00]: There doesn't seem to be any other indication that the mantites come back at any form.
31:47 --> 31:50 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know exactly what happens to them, but they're no longer a problem in this story.
31:51 --> 31:56 [SPEAKER_00]: But back at Kurimon, Mary is told by Methibi himself that the mantites have been spotted and are heading their way.
31:56 --> 32:03 [SPEAKER_00]: But the last minute they divert to the borrowers were Mary knows that Muffet would be passing by on his way back.
32:04 --> 32:15 [SPEAKER_00]: And as far as she knows, he's totally alone, and so she and the others came together to pray for him, but they couldn't know that their prayers had actually already been answered by the Greek cause deciding to go home as well.
32:16 --> 32:24 [SPEAKER_00]: And the rest of the year for the missionaries ends up being spent at Greek Hot Town because there's wars, there's tensions, lots of bloodshed, macabah and self was killed.
32:32 --> 32:42 [SPEAKER_00]: But when they were able to return, there had been these horrible hailstorms at a destroyed crops, it had killed lambs, it has stripped the bark from trees, and then it compound these horrible things.
32:42 --> 32:53 [SPEAKER_00]: The son of Mithibi Peclu, who had accompanied the Mothets to Cape Town and who seemed to be a Christian, suddenly died, which cast a gloomy shadow over the whole tribe, and the missionaries as well.
32:55 --> 32:59 [SPEAKER_00]: But despite all of these setbacks, the work began an earnest on the new mission station.
32:59 --> 33:02 [SPEAKER_00]: They had to dig a two mile long trench to irrigate at all.
33:03 --> 33:07 [SPEAKER_00]: They were a lot of robberies during this time, so they had to make sure that they were armed and ready.
33:07 --> 33:11 [SPEAKER_00]: And Muffet said that this trench was dug in troubleist time.
33:12 --> 33:22 [SPEAKER_00]: And then once again, tragedy strikes, because a son that had been born to the Muffet's died five days later, and then Mary's mother in England had passed away, but she didn't hear about it for another six months.
33:24 --> 33:30 [SPEAKER_00]: And referring to this time off it says, our situation during the infancy of the new station I shall not attempt to describe.
33:30 --> 33:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of our newly arrived assistants find themselves in a country where the restraints of law were unknown, and not being under the influence of religion.
33:38 --> 33:41 [SPEAKER_00]: But not submit to the trials which we patiently endured but murmured exceedingly.
33:42 --> 33:46 [SPEAKER_00]: On robbers were continuously making in rows threatening death and other things.
33:46 --> 33:49 [SPEAKER_00]: We were compelled to work daily at every species of labor.
33:49 --> 33:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Most of which was very heavy under our burning sun in a dry climate, we're only one shower to fall on in the last 12 months.
33:57 --> 34:13 [SPEAKER_00]: But I don't want to focus on all the doom and gloom that's happening because although there are very serious things that are happening there, also good things that are happening as well, because there was a spelling book, a cataclysm, and some small portions of scripture which had been prepared and had been sent to Cape Town to be printed.
34:13 --> 34:20 [SPEAKER_00]: But they were accidentally sent to England, which meant that it would take forever to get them back and all of that.
34:20 --> 34:25 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's good, but also bad even when you try to make it good, it's still not that great.
34:26 --> 34:30 [SPEAKER_00]: But in 1826, things got back to relatively normal state.
34:30 --> 34:32 [SPEAKER_00]: The years long drought finally ended.
34:32 --> 34:38 [SPEAKER_00]: The rain was principle, but it brings with it some locusts and these locusts devoured everything.
34:38 --> 34:51 [SPEAKER_00]: So the missionaries, once again, had to keep a very close eye on their cattle, less they get stolen, because this little bit of joy made the people even more desperate than they were before because they had this hope kind of snatched from them.
34:52 --> 35:00 [SPEAKER_00]: And this poor local man who had some oxen, he was out having them grazed and these two men come down from the mountains and they stole his oxen and they killed him.
35:01 --> 35:09 [SPEAKER_00]: But the end of 1826, the mission station is looking much more complete, there are several buildings that have been built and the moffits were able to move into their new house.
35:10 --> 35:16 [SPEAKER_00]: During this time, there weren't a lot of swanna around the station, and the ones that were there were still in different to the gospel.
35:16 --> 35:26 [SPEAKER_00]: So, Moffat still had this goal of reaching total swanna language ability, and he decided to take this low and to visit the barolongs for full language immersion.
35:27 --> 35:34 [SPEAKER_00]: He took a wagon, pulled by a few oxen, and there was a driver, a younger boy, and then two bar-alongs who were headed back.
35:34 --> 35:36 [SPEAKER_00]: And there is a wonderfully grey story.
35:36 --> 35:39 [SPEAKER_00]: I love this story, and it's not because it's like, oh, you know, amazing.
35:39 --> 35:42 [SPEAKER_00]: It's, it's actually quite terrible, but it makes it fascinating.
35:43 --> 35:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Muffet wrote, the two barolongs had brought a young cow with them, and though I recommended they're making her fast as well as the Oxton, they humorously replied that she was too wise to leave the wagon, even though a lion should be scented, we took a little supper with which we followed our evening him and prayer.
35:59 --> 36:02 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd retired only a few minutes to my wagon to prepare for the night.
36:03 --> 36:15 [SPEAKER_00]: When the whole of the oxen started to their feet, a lion had seized the cow only a few steps from their tails, and dragged it to the distance of 30 or 40 yards, where we distinctly heard it tearing the animal and breaking its bones.
36:15 --> 36:17 [SPEAKER_00]: While its bellowings were most pitiful,
36:18 --> 36:25 [SPEAKER_00]: When these were over, I seized my gun, but as it was too dark to see half the distance, I aimed at the spot where the devouring jaws were lying were heard.
36:26 --> 36:29 [SPEAKER_00]: I fired again and again to which he replied with tremendous roars.
36:30 --> 36:33 [SPEAKER_00]: At the same time, making a rush towards the wagon so I asked a terrify the oxen.
36:34 --> 36:41 [SPEAKER_00]: The two borrow longs and gays should take firebrands and throw them at him, so as to afford me a good degree of light that I might take aim.
36:41 --> 36:52 [SPEAKER_00]: They had scarcely discharged them from their hands, when the flames went out, and the arranged animal rushed towards them with such swiftness, but I barely had time to turn the gun and the fire and fire between the men and the lion.
36:53 --> 36:58 [SPEAKER_00]: The men darted through the some thorn bushes with the countenances indicative of the utmost terror.
36:58 --> 37:03 [SPEAKER_00]: It was now the opinion of all that we had better let him alone if he did not if he did not bother us.
37:03 --> 37:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Having had but a scanty supply of wood to keep a fire, one man crept among the bushes on one side of the pool while I proceeded for the same purpose on the other side.
37:13 --> 37:19 [SPEAKER_00]: I had not gone far when looking upwards to the edge of the small basin, I'd assurmo between me and the sky for animals.
37:20 --> 37:24 [SPEAKER_00]: Who's attention appeared to be directed to me by the noise I had made and breaking a dry stick.
37:26 --> 37:30 [SPEAKER_00]: On closer inspection, I found that the large, round, hairy-headed visitors were lions.
37:31 --> 37:34 [SPEAKER_00]: And retreated on my hands and feet towards the other side of the pool.
37:34 --> 37:48 [SPEAKER_00]: When coming to my wagon driver, I found him looking with no little alarm in the opposite direction, and with good reason, as no long, no fewer than two lions with a cub where eyeing is both apparently as uncertain about us, as they were distrustful of them.
37:49 --> 37:56 [SPEAKER_00]: We thankfully decamped the wagon and sat down to keep alive our scanty fire, oilists into the lion tearing and devouring is prey.
37:57 --> 38:07 [SPEAKER_00]: When any of the hudder hungry lions dared to approach, we would pursue them for some pace of what was a horrible howl, which made our poor ox and trimble and produced anything but agreeable sensations to ourselves.
38:08 --> 38:14 [SPEAKER_00]: We had reason for alarm, less any of the six lions we saw fearless of our small fire might rush in among us.
38:16 --> 38:19 [SPEAKER_00]: I wonder if this is one of those examples of another type 2 story.
38:20 --> 38:24 [SPEAKER_00]: But safely reaching the bar along, Smothit lived there for 10 weeks, and accomplished his goal.
38:24 --> 38:28 [SPEAKER_00]: He became fully fluent and he could now speak and preach the people without impediment.
38:50 --> 39:01 [SPEAKER_00]: And when Muffet returned to Keremon, things were already changing thousands of swanah had now settled around the station and were interested in the daily services and started attending the school and growing numbers.
39:01 --> 39:11 [SPEAKER_00]: But you know how it goes, because once things start going right, there's always a setback and once again, war came to the region and the mysteries had to retreat back to Grecoatown.
39:12 --> 39:26 [SPEAKER_00]: But when it all blew over, they came back, and the change in the people was evident because nothing was stolen, but sadly half the oxen and most of the cows were dead, and many people had fled from the station during the unrest, but were slowly trickling back.
39:27 --> 39:38 [SPEAKER_00]: The LMS superintendent came for a visit a bit later and suggested translating him, because he said, by the continued singing of these, the great truth of salvation would be imperceptibly written on the minds of the people.
39:40 --> 39:46 [SPEAKER_00]: And the spelling books that Moffett had sent to 80 printed also arrived and they were able to open a school and that sets one a language for the first time.
39:47 --> 39:52 [SPEAKER_00]: But war once again came to the region and caused some more setbacks, but we'll skip forward a little bit.
39:53 --> 40:01 [SPEAKER_00]: And now we are 10 years into ministry and to this point there really has not been any kind of spiritual fruit, but that is about to change.
40:01 --> 40:04 [SPEAKER_00]: And there isn't this great moment, this catalyst.
40:04 --> 40:10 [SPEAKER_00]: There was no amazing sermon where suddenly people were, you know, hearing the gospel for the first time.
40:10 --> 40:13 [SPEAKER_00]: It was just that something clicked.
40:13 --> 40:19 [SPEAKER_00]: And so reading from the book again, men who had scored the idea of shutting a tear, whept as their hearts were melted.
40:19 --> 40:25 [SPEAKER_00]: The chapel became a place of weeping and some after gazing intently upon the preacher fell down in hysterics.
40:25 --> 40:33 [SPEAKER_00]: The little chapel became too small to hold the numbers who flocked to it, and a new building 51 feet long by 16 feet wide with clay walls and a fast roof.
40:34 --> 40:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Was erected to serve as a schoolhouse and a place of worship, and to the large stone church which was to form the most prominent feature of the station should be completed.
40:43 --> 40:52 [SPEAKER_00]: A couple years before this, a friend had written to Mary asking if there was anything that she could use, and Mary had asked for a communion set saying they would have one of it some day.
40:52 --> 41:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, going back to the present day, after careful examination, six candidates for baptism were selected from among the inquiries.
41:00 --> 41:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of these converts, Moffitt said,
41:02 --> 41:14 [SPEAKER_00]: It was truly gratifying to observe the simplicity of their faiths, implicitly relying on the atonement of Christ, of which they appeared to have a very clear conception, considering the previous darkness of their minds on such subjects.
41:15 --> 41:22 [SPEAKER_00]: They were baptized on the first Sabbath in July, a large number of spectators from the neighboring towns, and a party of Greek laws being present.
41:22 --> 41:28 [SPEAKER_00]: In the evening, the missionaries, the new disciples, and a Greek law, 12 and all sat down to the Lord's table.
41:29 --> 41:47 [SPEAKER_00]: This communion set that Mary had asked for was used for the first time, but it had only just arrived at Kerem on after taking a year to arrive at Cape Town and then spending another year traveling to Kerem on how amazing is that such a cool story and much less terrifying the alliance.
41:48 --> 42:03 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the most interesting bi-products of the spiritual awakening at Kermon, I think even among the people who weren't necessarily Christians, but just the Christianization of the mission station, was that many of the women now wanted to learn how to sew.
42:03 --> 42:12 [SPEAKER_00]: They had this newfound interest in clothing, and there was a great demand for cloth instead of animal skins, and this British merchant came to Kermon and made a small fortune.
42:12 --> 42:22 [SPEAKER_00]: But the clothes could only be finished as cloth and money allowed, so several people would wander around with unfinished and colorful garments, often missing a jacket sleeve awaiting for a match.
42:22 --> 42:29 [SPEAKER_00]: And then animal's fat, which had previously been used all over the body, was now being used to make candles for their homes.
42:30 --> 42:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Pretty again, from the book, the happy death of a native woman about this time afforded them much encouragement.
42:36 --> 42:43 [SPEAKER_00]: When she knew her end was near, she said to those around, I am going to die, weep not because I am going to leave you, but weep for your sins and for your souls.
42:44 --> 42:49 [SPEAKER_00]: With me, always well, for do not suppose that I die like a beast or that I shall sleep forever in the grave.
42:50 --> 42:54 [SPEAKER_00]: No, Jesus is died for my sins, he has said he will save me, I am going to be with him.
43:00 --> 43:06 [SPEAKER_00]: There had been these persistent rumors of a strong and warlike people who live in the east and spoke a different language from this one.
43:07 --> 43:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Their leader was a man named Moza Latkatsa, and in 1829 he sent two on-voys and Kurt DeKurrim on to learn about what the missionaries were teaching there.
43:16 --> 43:21 [SPEAKER_00]: And the two men were shocked when they intended a church service and heard the people singing hymns and not war songs.
43:22 --> 43:28 [SPEAKER_00]: And when they were ready to leave, they asked Moffitt to come with them because they were afraid to travel through Swan a territory alone.
43:28 --> 43:32 [SPEAKER_00]: But I think this was just an excuse to bring him to their king because they traveled there perfectly fine.
43:33 --> 43:35 [SPEAKER_00]: But it doesn't matter because Moffitt comes with them.
43:35 --> 43:45 [SPEAKER_00]: And as they traveled Muffet saw this clear and burning evidence of the Mata Bale, this is the people group that he was hit out traveling to, were far worse than the man to tease had been.
43:45 --> 43:52 [SPEAKER_00]: And I imagine he was rather anxious as a drew nearer, but he recounts his first meeting with Mosulat Katsun.
43:53 --> 43:57 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, we were preceded directly to the town on writing into the center of the large full.
43:57 --> 44:05 [SPEAKER_00]: We were rather taken by surprise to find it lined by 800 warriors, besides 200 who were concealed on either side of the entrance, as if an ambush.
44:06 --> 44:11 [SPEAKER_00]: We were back into dismount, which we did holding our horses bridles in our hands.
44:11 --> 44:19 [SPEAKER_00]: The warriors of the gate instantly rushed in with hideous yells, leaping from the earth with a kind of kilt around their bodies, hanging like loose tails, and their large shields
44:21 --> 44:37 [SPEAKER_00]: When they join the circles falling into rank, with as much order as if they have been accustomed to European tactics, here we stood surrounded by warriors who'd kills were of ape skins, and their legs and arms were adorned with the hair and tail of oxen, their shields reaching to their chins and their heads were adorned with feathers.
44:38 --> 44:44 [SPEAKER_00]: I profound silence followed for some ten minutes, then all commenced a war song, stamping their feet and tying to the music.
44:44 --> 44:47 [SPEAKER_00]: No one approached though every eye was fixed upon us.
44:48 --> 44:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Then all was silent and Mosulet Katsa marched out from behind the lines of his interpreter, and with attendance following bearing meat, beer and other foods.
44:57 --> 44:59 [SPEAKER_00]: He gave us a hearty salutation and seemed overjoyed.
45:00 --> 45:02 [SPEAKER_00]: The wagons were objects which struck the monarch with awe.
45:02 --> 45:05 [SPEAKER_00]: He examined them minutely, especially the wheels.
45:05 --> 45:07 [SPEAKER_00]: One point remained a mystery.
45:07 --> 45:12 [SPEAKER_00]: How the iron tires ran the wheel came to be a one-piece without end or joint.
45:12 --> 45:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Umbate, the headman who had visited the mission station, explained that he is seeing a Smith shop there.
45:18 --> 45:23 [SPEAKER_00]: My eyes saw that very hand pointing to Muffett's hand at cup these bars of iron.
45:23 --> 45:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Take a piece off one end of enjoying them as you now see them.
45:27 --> 45:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Does he give medicine to the iron the monarch and choir?
45:29 --> 45:33 [SPEAKER_00]: No, Umbate says nothing is used by fire, a hammer and a chisel.
45:34 --> 45:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Mothalet Katsa is a complex individual and probably one of my favorites in the whole office story.
45:40 --> 45:42 [SPEAKER_00]: He is an absolute brutal dictator.
45:42 --> 45:48 [SPEAKER_00]: He does get better as time goes on because of his exposure to Mothet, but he is also just a real sweetheart.
45:48 --> 45:57 [SPEAKER_00]: And he treated Mothet so well he overloaded him with these gifts and kindness and during one conversation, he told Mothet, my heart is all as white as milk.
45:57 --> 46:00 [SPEAKER_00]: I am still wondering at the love of a stranger who never saw
46:04 --> 46:06 [SPEAKER_00]: I live today by you, a stranger.
46:07 --> 46:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Upon Mothi replying that he was unaware of having rendered him any such service, Mothi let Katsa points to his two ambassadors and said, these are two great men.
46:17 --> 46:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Bumbate is my right hand man.
46:19 --> 46:31 [SPEAKER_00]: When I sent him from my presence to the land of the white man, I sent my ears, my eyes, my mouth, and they heard what they heard, I heard what they saw, I saw, and what they said, it was Mothi Mothi like Katsa, who said it.
46:31 --> 46:35 [SPEAKER_00]: You fed them and clowed them, and when they were to be slain, you were their shield.
46:35 --> 46:40 [SPEAKER_00]: You did this unto me, you did this unto modulat katsa, the son of Makobane.
46:42 --> 46:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Moffitt also as was to be expected to share the gospel with the King, but he did not understand why Moffitt was so insistent that he stopped making war and killing people, he, like Makaba, was disturbed and perturbed by the talks of the resurrection.
46:57 --> 47:05 [SPEAKER_00]: And when it was time for Moffitt to return home, the King did send him home, laden with an abundance of food, and a retinue of four years to give him safe and the guard against lions.
47:07 --> 47:18 [SPEAKER_00]: And when Moffitt arrived home, he found that Kermon was an Eden, many of the new Christians had joined the missionaries, and eager to get in their gardens and growing a plethora of crops, and also implanting fruit trees and tobacco.
47:19 --> 47:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, in June of 1830, skipping forward a couple of years, the translation of Luke Intusetswana was ready to print, but nobody was skilled enough to do the printing, and so they had to learn to do it themselves, so they had to go to Cape Town.
47:31 --> 47:35 [SPEAKER_00]: And they decided, while they were there, they would print a hymn book as well.
47:36 --> 47:39 [SPEAKER_00]: But while they're there, there seems to be an outbreak of some kind of illness.
47:39 --> 47:46 [SPEAKER_00]: It looks like probably malaria, and during this time they're in Cape Town, there's also a baby that's born a little Elizabeth.
47:47 --> 47:55 [SPEAKER_00]: And Muffet had been stricken with malaria, and so as they leave, Cape Town that go back to current on, he has to be carried back to the ship on a mattress.
47:56 --> 48:02 [SPEAKER_00]: And when they came back home, they came back not only with the gospel of Luke and the him book, but also with a printing press.
48:02 --> 48:07 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'll imagine how incredible that would be to everybody.
48:07 --> 48:11 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that would be a site to behold reading from the book again.
48:12 --> 48:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Lessons, spelling books, and catechisms prepared for the schools to see a white sheet of paper disappear for a moment and then emerge cover with letters was beyond their comprehension after a few noisy exclamations one obtained a sheet with which he bounded through the village showing it to all he met and saying it had been made in a moment with a round black hammer, a printer's ball, and a shake of an arm.
48:33 --> 48:41 [SPEAKER_00]: They also seem to arrive with a new missionary who wanted to help Mary run the sewing school which had expanded to the great joy of the women.
48:42 --> 48:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Another setback happens.
48:43 --> 48:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Smallpox comes to the village.
48:45 --> 48:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Many of the locals die and baby Elizabeth who was born in Cape Town a few months before she dies as well.
48:52 --> 48:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Muffet once again decides to head back and visit Mosulet Katsa, and he is delighted to see Muffet again.
48:58 --> 49:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Muffet stays for three months, and is showing him all of his vast land holding, as there's also kind of a scientific exploration going around, so he's very happy to show off all the different things, especially because he's looking at the really cool scientific equipment that they have to serve their land, and it's a really fun time.
49:15 --> 49:39 [SPEAKER_00]: and moth it throughout all these long journeys in the wagon is it's kind of talking to him about religion of course but then also his uh rule and how it can be a little bit softer a little bit gentler maybe a bit kinder and all of this is taken well and I think that'd be very uh difficult to do you're in this man's home is country his way of life and all that and you're having to very
49:42 --> 49:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they shouldn't want to make kill people and accept Jesus.
49:47 --> 49:52 [SPEAKER_00]: I felt that would be a very difficult thing to tell somebody who had so much power over your life.
49:53 --> 49:56 [SPEAKER_00]: But he did it, because Muffet was amazing and he was super cool.
49:57 --> 50:01 [SPEAKER_00]: And they also, on this visit, got wood for the church roof.
50:01 --> 50:05 [SPEAKER_00]: So they had been building this church for like several years, so it was a beautiful church.
50:05 --> 50:08 [SPEAKER_00]: But they couldn't find adequate timber for it.
50:08 --> 50:22 [SPEAKER_00]: But during this journey, they do end up getting the timber, and they had to work really hard to make this roof, because Mosulet Cots' people are 250 miles away, or at least wherever they found this timber was that far away.
50:23 --> 50:26 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was carried back by Hamilton and others, and it was hand cut.
50:27 --> 50:29 [SPEAKER_00]: and it is actually still standing today.
50:29 --> 50:32 [SPEAKER_00]: I double checked to make sure because the book said it was but the book is very old.
50:33 --> 50:49 [SPEAKER_00]: At some point towards the end it's talking about when Moth it returned to England and it's like oh you I'm sure many of us remember Moth it and is beard and all this different stuff and so it was it was old but it is in fact still standing two day and twenty twenty six.
50:49 --> 50:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Now skipping forward to 1838, the entire New Testament is finished, but neither the Kermann nor the Cape Town presses were up to the task.
50:58 --> 51:06 [SPEAKER_00]: And this needed to be done in England, and it had now been 22 years since this wide-eyed gardener had first arrived in Cape Town.
51:06 --> 51:10 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know that he couldn't help but reminisce about everything that had happened since then.
51:10 --> 51:18 [SPEAKER_00]: He had a wife, several children, three mission stations that he had been to and then many new and during friendships.
51:19 --> 51:24 [SPEAKER_00]: Some new converts and wars and of course a lot more lines than they were in England.
51:25 --> 51:29 [SPEAKER_00]: And on the ship back to England, you guys know at this point, there's always tragedy.
51:29 --> 51:37 [SPEAKER_00]: These strikes measles came aboard the ship and Mary had another baby, and then three days after this baby was born, they lost.
51:38 --> 51:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Not this baby, but they're six-year-old son, and so I'm sure that definitely...
51:43 --> 52:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Tainted the the trip back to England, but when they arrived there there were so many changes that had taken place and enthusiasm for mission work was sweeping through England and the Moffits were set up in it as well and they traveled all over Britain speaking about their work and the needs of Africa and during this visit as many of you probably know or anticipating
52:04 --> 52:13 [SPEAKER_00]: This was the visit that helped change the life trajectory of David Livingston, who had previously pledged himself for China, but then changed his mind to Africa after meeting Moffitt.
52:13 --> 52:16 [SPEAKER_00]: And we all know what a difference of course that he made in Africa.
52:16 --> 52:21 [SPEAKER_00]: And there's a bit of a chain reaction here because you have Moffitt Livingston through Livingston.
52:21 --> 52:25 [SPEAKER_00]: You have Henry Morton Stanley, and then Mary Slesser, and then you could just keep on going.
52:26 --> 52:29 [SPEAKER_00]: But it all starts here with this simple visit to England.
52:30 --> 52:42 [SPEAKER_00]: In an 1840, so two years after they arrived in England, there are 500 copies of this one in New Testament that were ready to be sent out and they are sent with Livingston and another missionary who were headed to Kermon.
52:42 --> 52:46 [SPEAKER_00]: And while he's there, Muffet says, let's just go ahead and do the Psalms as well.
52:46 --> 52:48 [SPEAKER_00]: So the Psalms are also printed while he's in England.
52:49 --> 52:53 [SPEAKER_00]: And then once those are finished, they had back to Africa in 1843.
52:53 --> 52:56 [SPEAKER_00]: The mothets at this point are 47.
52:56 --> 53:00 [SPEAKER_00]: I try to keep an age tracker for reference kind of throughout the story, but I forgot.
53:00 --> 53:01 [SPEAKER_00]: But they are 47 years old.
53:03 --> 53:07 [SPEAKER_00]: And we are once again, going to do a time jump for a few years.
53:07 --> 53:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything is humming along very nice thing, Kermon and this rounding areas.
53:11 --> 53:17 [SPEAKER_00]: His now son-in-law, Livingston, went missing kind of, but it wasn't really his most famous missing period.
53:17 --> 53:27 [SPEAKER_00]: So eventually he will turn up, and Mothit had turned all of his attentions to completing this that's won a Bible, because the New Testament is done, but the Old Testament is still needing to be completed.
53:28 --> 53:33 [SPEAKER_00]: And from the book, every minute that could be devoted to the task was eagerly embraced.
53:33 --> 53:38 [SPEAKER_00]: His labor's often extending far into the night, numerous interruptions made the work more difficult.
53:38 --> 53:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Many, many other times, I sat down and got my thoughts somewhat in order he writes.
53:43 --> 53:49 [SPEAKER_00]: With pen and hand to write a verse, the correct rendering of which I had just arrived at, activating through other translations and lexicon.
53:50 --> 54:12 [SPEAKER_00]: When one enters my study with some complaint he has to make or counsel to ask, or medical advice and medicine to boot, a tooth to be extracted, a subscription to the exhilarate to be measured or counted, or one is calling to say that he's going to the colony, or wish this something like a passport, strangers from other towns and visitors from the interior arrive all who seem to have a right to claim my intentions.
54:13 --> 54:17 [SPEAKER_00]: It kind of sounds like a crab-y old man, but that does make sense, I'd be very annoying.
54:17 --> 54:24 [SPEAKER_00]: But all of these interruptions were really making a lot of inroads into his health, and he was not the young man that he used to be.
54:24 --> 54:30 [SPEAKER_00]: And he began to show signs of aging and just sickness and stress that could not be ignored.
54:31 --> 54:45 [SPEAKER_00]: And the also this problem in his head, it was a constant growing noise like the like a bolder something kind of falling in the buzzing like boiling water sound kind of happening and it never ceased day or night.
54:45 --> 54:55 [SPEAKER_00]: And so he lost a lot of sleep because of it and it's only relief to these horrible noises and his head seemed to be studying and preaching but as soon as he had finished
54:59 --> 55:08 [SPEAKER_00]: The LMS directors are understandably concerned for Moffat and they're like, hey, you need to rest either in Cape Town or you need to come back to England.
55:08 --> 55:20 [SPEAKER_00]: And Moffat decided he didn't want to go to either one of those places, so he decides that the best way to get some rest is to visit his good buddy Moza Letkatsa and maybe get some information on where Livingston could be while he is in that direction.
55:21 --> 55:24 [SPEAKER_00]: And Moffat wrote down the scene which greeted him upon seeing his old friends.
55:25 --> 55:27 [SPEAKER_00]: On turning round, there he sat, how changed.
55:27 --> 55:35 [SPEAKER_00]: The vigorous act of a nimble chief of the Matabali, now age, sitting on a skin, layman is feet unable to walk or even to stand.
55:35 --> 55:40 [SPEAKER_00]: I entered, he grasped my hand, gave one earnest look and drew his mantle over my over his face.
55:41 --> 55:46 [SPEAKER_00]: It would have been an awful sight for his people to see the hero of a hundred fights, why from his eyes the falling tears.
55:46 --> 55:50 [SPEAKER_00]: He spoke not except to pronounce my name, Mosheeta again and again.
55:51 --> 55:55 [SPEAKER_00]: He looked at me again, his hands still holding mine, and he again covered his face.
55:55 --> 55:58 [SPEAKER_00]: My heart yearned with compassion for his soul.
55:58 --> 56:02 [SPEAKER_00]: The old chief was suffering with dropsy, but luckily, Moffat had some medicine.
56:02 --> 56:11 [SPEAKER_00]: He was able to give him, and he soon recovered, and he was showing him throughout his lands, and Moffat realized that all of his different councils and devices that he had given
56:15 --> 56:22 [SPEAKER_00]: completely unheard, and so many of his people were living in much more prosperous, happy, and less dictatorish ways.
56:23 --> 56:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Moth it is up staying with his friend for nearly three months, and after much persuasion, he is actually given permission to send people to them to preach the gospel, which had always been something that Mothalikatsa did not want, hadn't allowed it.
56:39 --> 56:40 [SPEAKER_00]: This was an amazing moment.
56:41 --> 56:48 [SPEAKER_00]: While he is staying with Mosulet Katsa, they decide to go out to their tribe to visit and try to see if there's any news on Livingston.
56:49 --> 57:02 [SPEAKER_00]: There wasn't any news, but if they were on the right trajectory, they were supposed to be on, they would pass back through that tribe on the way back to Kermon, so he ends up leaving some supplies with them, which Livingston later on gathers up in a few more months.
57:02 --> 57:13 [SPEAKER_00]: But towards the end of October, Mothid was ready to go back to Kariman and Modula Katsa pressed him to prolong his stay, pleading that he had not seen enough of him, and that he had not yet shown him a significant kindness.
57:14 --> 57:19 [SPEAKER_00]: And Mothir replied kindness, you have overwhelmed me with kindness, and I shall now return with the heart overflowing with thanks.
57:20 --> 57:31 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he left his friend with a supply of medicines for his condition and also told him to give up beer drinking and then to receive any Christian teacher who might come to him and then he left.
57:31 --> 57:35 [SPEAKER_00]: And the long journey was accomplished without any remarkable event.
57:35 --> 57:38 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't do horse moth it reached his home again in safety.
57:38 --> 57:41 [SPEAKER_00]: But by this journey his health was much improved.
57:42 --> 57:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Mothet would visit Motolet Katsa a few more times throughout his time in Africa, but it doesn't seem as though he ever became a Christian, which I find to be quite terribly tragic.
57:53 --> 57:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe he did, but it doesn't seem as though that is the case.
57:58 --> 58:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, after almost 30 years, the entire Bible had been completed in the Setswana language and Moffitt later recounted how he felt when it was finally completed, he wrote, I cannot describe to the feelings of that time, of the writing and of the last verse, I could hardly believe that I was in the world so difficult was it for me to realize the fact that my labor of years was completed, whether it was from weakness or overstrained mental exertion I cannot tell, but a feeling came over me that I would die and I felt
58:27 --> 58:33 [SPEAKER_00]: To overcome this, I went back again to my manuscript to be printed, read it over and re-examine it till it linked.
58:33 --> 58:35 [SPEAKER_00]: I got back again to my right mind.
58:35 --> 58:39 [SPEAKER_00]: This was the most remarkable time in my life, a period I shall never forget.
58:39 --> 58:46 [SPEAKER_00]: My feelings found event by falling upon my knees and thanking God for his grace and goodness and giving me strength to accomplish my task.
58:47 --> 58:53 [SPEAKER_00]: My work was thus accomplished, and now I see the word of God read by thousands of swanna in their native tongue.
58:54 --> 58:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Now here we come to critique number two of Cecil Northcott and others.
58:58 --> 59:04 [SPEAKER_00]: They say that Moffitt's translation is not the best and others had to come back out later and make it more accurate.
59:05 --> 59:12 [SPEAKER_00]: And this I find to be a incredibly petty critique because he is the first person to have done it.
59:12 --> 59:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Now this is actually quite early on as far as translation efforts are concerned.
59:17 --> 59:20 [SPEAKER_00]: And Moffitt is not a translator.
59:20 --> 59:21 [SPEAKER_00]: He was a gardener.
59:22 --> 59:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Like the fact that he was able to do this at all is pretty incredible, but also the language had not been written down.
59:29 --> 59:33 [SPEAKER_00]: They didn't even have an alphabet until Moffitt came along and helped.
59:33 --> 59:37 [SPEAKER_00]: And let's be honest, what translation is truly perfect.
59:37 --> 59:38 [SPEAKER_00]: There is no perfect translation.
59:38 --> 59:42 [SPEAKER_00]: There are always being updated and rendered in more modern languages, etc.
59:43 --> 59:56 [SPEAKER_00]: But, the most important part, for us to focus on is not whether Muffet's translation was entirely word-for-word perfect for all of the setswanna that would ever come to be, but did it work for the people?
59:56 --> 59:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Did they understand the gospel?
59:59 --> 01:00:00 [SPEAKER_00]: And yes, they did, clearly.
01:00:00 --> 01:00:02 [SPEAKER_00]: So that is number two, critique.
01:00:03 --> 01:00:04 [SPEAKER_00]: We have one more to go.
01:00:04 --> 01:00:05 [SPEAKER_00]: But for now,
01:00:06 --> 01:00:09 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll go back to several tragedies in 1868.
01:00:10 --> 01:00:11 [SPEAKER_00]: There are a lot of bad things to happen.
01:00:11 --> 01:00:16 [SPEAKER_00]: It was curramon at this point is run solely by the moffits and their son, John.
01:00:17 --> 01:00:21 [SPEAKER_00]: Their son Robert had died, their daughter, Mary, the wife of Livingston had died.
01:00:21 --> 01:00:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Their son and law had been killed in a wagon explosion that was caused by this crazy trader guy, like Trader is in a guy who's trading good, it's not a little trader.
01:00:31 --> 01:00:33 [SPEAKER_00]: But this guy had broken several laws.
01:00:33 --> 01:00:37 [SPEAKER_00]: And the locals were like, hey, you have to come in face justice.
01:00:37 --> 01:00:40 [SPEAKER_00]: And he holds himself up in a wagon with a bunch of explosives.
01:00:41 --> 01:00:44 [SPEAKER_00]: And the son-in-law tries to go and reason with him.
01:00:44 --> 01:00:45 [SPEAKER_00]: And something happens.
01:00:45 --> 01:00:50 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if the guy decided to go out, you know, kamikaze style or if it was just an accident.
01:00:50 --> 01:00:53 [SPEAKER_00]: But the whole wagon explodes and a lot of people died.
01:00:53 --> 01:00:57 [SPEAKER_00]: And one of those people was the son-in-law of Mothin.
01:00:58 --> 01:01:03 [SPEAKER_00]: And to cap it all off, Moffat is no longer a young man, and he felt stretched quite thinly.
01:01:04 --> 01:01:17 [SPEAKER_00]: And in due course, he is gently forced into retirement by the LMS, and reading from the book again, on Sunday, March 20th, 1870, Robert Moffat preached for the last time in the church at Kariman.
01:01:17 --> 01:01:20 [SPEAKER_00]: And then the following Friday, his departure took place.
01:01:20 --> 01:01:31 [SPEAKER_00]: For weeks past messages of farewell had been coming from the more distant towns and villages, and now that the final hour had arrived, and the missionary with his long white beard, and is equally revered, wife left their house.
01:01:31 --> 01:01:37 [SPEAKER_00]: They were a beset by crowds of people, each one longing for their shake of the hand, a last parting word, or a final look.
01:01:37 --> 01:01:44 [SPEAKER_00]: And as the wagon drove away, a long pitiful whale rose from those who felt that their teacher and friend was with them no more.
01:01:44 --> 01:01:52 [SPEAKER_00]: The Moffitz were once again much celebrated in England, Robert gave speeches and continued to raise awareness about Africa until his dying breath.
01:01:53 --> 01:02:00 [SPEAKER_00]: And he was so beloved that Queen Victoria even asked to meet him and he was granted an honorary doctorate by the University of Edinburgh.
01:02:00 --> 01:02:07 [SPEAKER_00]: And he continued revising his proofs of the setswana Old Testament until pretty much the end.
01:02:07 --> 01:02:13 [SPEAKER_00]: He would also live long enough to identify the remains of Livingston when his body returned to England.
01:02:13 --> 01:02:18 [SPEAKER_00]: But Mary lived only for one year in England before she passed away after a short illness.
01:02:19 --> 01:02:28 [SPEAKER_00]: And Muffet wrote to a friend, for 53 years I have had her to pray for me how lonely I feel, and if it were not for my daughter it would be so much more.
01:02:30 --> 01:02:36 [SPEAKER_00]: In 1882, the Zulu King was an England there to meet Queen Victoria and Petition, some different things from her.
01:02:36 --> 01:02:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, among the Zulu King's attendance was a man who could speak Satswana and with him Mothat got into a conversation and the man's delight was unbounded.
01:02:45 --> 01:02:48 [SPEAKER_00]: He had been in the training of a son of Modulet Katsa.
01:02:48 --> 01:02:52 [SPEAKER_00]: I had heard of the missionary and he asks him, he says, are you moth it?
01:02:52 --> 01:02:55 [SPEAKER_00]: And he asks them again and again, he's just so happy about it.
01:02:56 --> 01:02:59 [SPEAKER_00]: And he said, I see this day while my eyes never expected to behold.
01:03:00 --> 01:03:01 [SPEAKER_00]: He was so happy.
01:03:01 --> 01:03:03 [SPEAKER_00]: And here we come to critique number three.
01:03:04 --> 01:03:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Now I saw this one actually a few different times, not just from Cecil Northcott, but also from a blurb in the Boston University biography about moth it.
01:03:13 --> 01:03:16 [SPEAKER_00]: And this was that moth it didn't have any African friends.
01:03:17 --> 01:03:27 [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't even think we really need to debunk that one because it is clearly evidenced by his entire life that he had plenty of African friends, just a very stupid critique.
01:03:27 --> 01:03:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's be real.
01:03:28 --> 01:03:32 [SPEAKER_00]: So, Cecil and Boston Union, I think Cecil is actually dead by this point.
01:03:32 --> 01:03:37 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why I keep Hamillist poor guy, but Boston University do better, come on people.
01:03:38 --> 01:03:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Now in August of 1883, at the age of 88, he felt unwell.
01:03:42 --> 01:03:46 [SPEAKER_00]: He knew his end was near, and quoting from the book.
01:03:46 --> 01:03:55 [SPEAKER_00]: The doctor arrived who found that he had broken a blood vessel, and the night was passed partly in peaceful sleep and partly in conversation with his children who were then present.
01:03:55 --> 01:04:00 [SPEAKER_00]: His daughter says he was just full of his Savior's love and mercy all through his life.
01:04:01 --> 01:04:03 [SPEAKER_00]: He repeated many hymns and passages of scripture.
01:04:04 --> 01:04:07 [SPEAKER_00]: He also had his testament, but finding he could not read it, his daughters read it to him.
01:04:08 --> 01:04:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Another sleep, a wandering perhaps unconscious look at his children, a struggle, and then quietness.
01:04:14 --> 01:04:22 [SPEAKER_00]: And the pilgrimage was over, the spirit had fled to be present with the Lord, whom he had loved so well and served so faithfully, his end was peace.
01:04:23 --> 01:04:32 [SPEAKER_00]: And so ends part two, the ending of the life of Robert Moffitt, and it is so hard to compress such a well-lived life into two episodes.
01:04:32 --> 01:04:37 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is once again another example of the unlikely people that God chooses.
01:04:37 --> 01:04:41 [SPEAKER_00]: This was a gardener who just so happened to see a sign for a missionary meeting.
01:04:41 --> 01:04:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember to his mother's stories and decided to go.
01:04:44 --> 01:04:54 [SPEAKER_00]: And we also can't forget the other people who play a role in this as well because there's the commitments of William Roby who didn't let the first to know from the London Missionary Society keep him from teaching moth it.
01:04:55 --> 01:05:01 [SPEAKER_00]: And then Mary gave her husband the tough love and encouraged him to continue learning Satswana and didn't let him give up.
01:05:01 --> 01:05:05 [SPEAKER_00]: And I could go on with all the different people but you could name them as well.
01:05:05 --> 01:05:11 [SPEAKER_00]: And there's also Hamilton who's quiet perseverance kept the station humming in very dark times.
01:05:12 --> 01:05:20 [SPEAKER_00]: But I do hope you enjoyed this episode on Robert Moffitt, and I hope they encourage you to keep on plotting for the kingdom because you never know how God is using you.
01:05:21 --> 01:05:25 [SPEAKER_00]: And as always, thank you for listening to Martyr's Emissionaries, I'm Elise.