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now and again a case of a man who seeks to
lay up treasure in heaven only, and trusts
to God for the supply of temporal wants.
One of these noble men of the heavenly
aristocracy, after a laborious life of upwards
of fifty years spent in Africa, returned home
full of years and honours—

“Waiting till the shadows werea little longer grown” —

and has now heard the Master’s voice call-
ing, “Robert Moffat, come up hither !”—
“ well done, good and faithful servant.”

Mr. Moffat told me that, in preaching
Christ to the natives, for a long time they
would not believe that his motives were
disinterested. Said they, ‘“‘ We can under-
stand a man that comes here to buy ostrich
feathers and ivory ;” and judging him by
their own standard, they thought, doubtless,
Mr. Moffat had come to cheat them.
Another heavenly millionaire is George
Miiller of Bristol, who, perhaps more than
any other man living, has acted up to the
charter of his rights as a believer in Jesus.
Not only have his own wants been amply
supplied, but thousands of orphans who