While With Us, They
Always Conducted Themselves With Propriety During Divine Service, And
Not Only Maintained Decorum Themselves, But Insisted On Other Natives
Who Might Be Present Doing The Same.
When Moshobotwane, the Batoka
chief, came on one occasion with a number of his men, they listened
in silence
To the reading of the Bible in the Makololo tongue; but,
as soon as we all knelt down to pray, they commenced a vigorous
clapping of hands, their mode of asking a favour. Our indignant
Makololo soon silenced their noisy accompaniment, and looked with
great contempt on this display of ignorance. Nearly all our men had
learned to repeat the Lord's Prayer and the Apostles' Creed in their
own language, and felt rather proud of being able to do so; and when
they reached home, they liked to recite them to groups of admiring
friends. Their ideas of right and wrong differ in no respect from
our own, except in their professed inability to see how it can be
improper for a man to have more than one wife. A year or two ago
several of the wives of those who had been absent with us petitioned
the chief for leave to marry again. They thought that it was of no
use waiting any longer, their husbands must be dead; but Sekeletu
refused permission; he himself had bet a number of oxen that the
Doctor would return with their husbands, and he had promised the
absent men that their wives should be kept for them.
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