but missionaries can possibly know, and much patient plodding yields but little visible result. Further inland the seed produces far better crops, just as with the natural soil, so with the spiritual, and great harvests are being gathered in some of the East African mission stations.
Saturday noon arrived, and we made our way to the tiny railway station, our luggage having gone there ahead of us. We had a strange collection — a medicine chest, camera, bags of personal necessaries, and baskets of tinned provisions, bread, milk, bottles of water, saucepans, kettles, spirit lamp, and table furniture—for we did not know at all how long the journey might take. We knew the train was advertised to do the journey of 584 miles by the following Tuesday morning; but that was not to say we should do it. Of course we had a good supply of pillows and rugs, as our nights must be spent on the train.
