When He was among men, those who heard Him speak said, ’Never man spake like this man,’ and we now say, ’Never did man love like Him.’  You see little Zouga is carried on mamma’s bosom.  You are taken care of by Jesus with as much care as mamma takes of Zouga.  He is always watching you and keeping you in safety.  It is very bad to sin, to do any naughty things, or speak angry or naughty words before Him.

“My dear children, take Him as your Guide, your Helper, your Friend, and Saviour through life.  Whatever you are troubled about ask Him to keep you.  Our God is good.  We thank Him that we have such a Saviour and Friend as He is.  Now you are little, but you will not always be so, hence you must learn to read and write and work.  All clever men can both read and write, and Jesus needs clever men to do his work.  Would you not like to work for Him among men?  Jesus is wishing to send his gospel to all nations, and He needs clever men to do this.  Would you like to serve Him?  Well, you must learn now, and not get tired learning.  After some time you will like learning better than playing, but you must play, too, in order to make your bodies strong and be able to serve Jesus.

“I am glad to hear that you go to the academy.  I hope you are learning fast.  Don’t speak Scotch.  It is not so pretty as English.  Is the Tau learning to read with mamma?  I hope you are all kind to mamma.  I saw a poor woman in a chain with many others, up at the Barotse.  She had a little child, and both she and her child were very thin.  See how kind Jesus was to you.  No one can put you in chains unless you become bad.  If, however, you learn bad ways, beginning only by saying bad words or doing little bad things, Satan will have you in the chains of sin, and you will be hurried on in his bad ways till you are put into the dreadful place which God hath prepared for him and all who are like him.  Pray to Jesus to deliver you from sin, give you new hearts, and make you his children.  Kiss Zouga, mamma, and each other for me.—­Your ever affectionate father,

     “D.  LIVINGSTON.”

A letter to his father and other relations at Hamilton, 30th September, 1853, is of a somewhat apologetic and explanatory cast.  Some of the friends had the notion that he should have settled somewhere, “preaching the simple gospel,” and converting people by every sermon: 

“You see what they make of the gospel, and my conversation on it, in which my inmost Heart yearned for their conversion.  Many now think Jesus and Sebituane very much the same sort of person.  I was prevented by fever and other matters from at once following up the glorious object of this journey:  viz., while preaching the gospel beyond every other man’s line of things made ready to our hands, to discover a healthy location for a mission, and I determined to improve the time by teaching to read.  This produced profound deliberation and lengthened