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Title: An African trail
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Mackenzie, Jean Kenyon, 1874-1936 Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions
Subjects: Bulu (African people) Missions
Publisher: West Medford, Mass., The Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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death. All needful things He left us in the country
A word of
remembrance.
"And if you say, as our fathers have
said, that He created us and forgot
us, see first, before you say this. His perseverance in
remembering us,—the food our women bring every
day from the garden, the water they draw every day
from the spring, yes, and even the sun that daily
goes down the old path to the sea, and the many
moons that wax and are big and wane. Tolo, too
(constellation of the hare), that in his own time
stands above the roofs of the houses for a sign to the
sons of men that they must fell the clearings for the
new gardens before the great rains have spoiled
the work. When you see all these remembrances
that Zambe who created us has remembered us, will
you still say that Zambe forgets us? No, not even
a single day! But I ask you—what man remembers
Zambe. Who when he eats his portion gives Zambe
thanks ? Who drinks his water and thinks of
Zambe?
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A BANTU CHIEF


THE ZULU AND GOD 97

A word of
the law.
And a thing which is more than
these things,—who keeps the ten
tyings with which Zambe tied him? And if you say,
those ten tyings, who told us of those ten tyings
that we should keep them? I, too, I ask you, who
when he committed adultery believed in his heart
that he did the straight thing? Who killed a man and
believed he did the straight thing? How many of
you have killed in secret and keep that secret still
hidden in your hearts because you know that you
have done a thing that is crooked? The things of
shame that are hidden in your heart, who told you
that these things were things of shame? Do not
again tell me, 'those ten tyings, who told us of them?'
when you continually do the things that you know
in your heart are crooked. Myself I tell you this
true word, that we all, from the birth of men, we
have continually scorned God—He-who-created-us
and who is able to destroy us. Not a man of you is
able to tell me that I lie. These are true words.

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