‘Formerly I used to buy the cheapest leather and thread I could get, rush home, make my shoes as quickly as possible, and then off to the market to sell them for as much as I could get--my only anxiety being to get as much money as I could, and as quickly as possible, however badly my work was done--that did not trouble me at all. That story, however, quite startled me; I saw how mistaken I had been, and what my duty was for the future; and I determined to do all my work for Jesus Christ, and I have done so. I now buy the very best leather and thread I can find, and I put the best work I can into all the boots and shoes I make. I make them now just as if Jesus Christ had ordered them, and was standing by watching how I made them, and waiting to put them on as soon as they were finished. I don’t make so much money by my work as I did formerly, but I am very much happier, and the people are coming to know the kind of boots and shoes I now make, and I have as much work as I can possibly do. I can’t preach or teach, but I can make boots and shoes; and that I do as well as ever I can for Jesus Christ’s sake, and in the hope that in that way I may adorn the doctrine of God, by a life and work such as will do credit to my profession of Christianity.’ CHAPTER XVIII THE TRIUMPH OF THE GOSPEL ‘He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till He have set judgement in the earth; and the isles shall wait for His law.’--ISAIAH xlii. 4. (‘He shall not burn dimly, neither shall His Spirit be crushed, until He has placed _the_ law _of Jehovah_ on the earth; and for His teaching the nations are waiting.’--_New Translation._) Under French rule everything in Madagascar has been changed. Some of the changes are decidedly beneficial, others are not, and some are such as to cause the profoundest sorrow.