Livingstone's treatment of both was successful, and Sechele had not an angry word.

Some of his questions struck the heart of the missionary: "'Since it is true that all who die unforgiven are lost forever, why did your nation not come to tell us of it before now?
My ancestors are all gone, and none of them knew anything of what you tell me.

How is this ?' I thought immediately," says Livingstone, "of the guilt of the Church, but did not confess.

I told him multitudes in our own country were like himself, so much in love with their sins.

My ancestors had spent a great deal of time in trying to persuade them, and yet after all many of them by refusing were lost.