Africaner was at one time a famous African chief and robber, but he had been converted to Christ through the missionary, James Moffat.
When he found his end approaching, he called all his people together, after the example, of Joshua, and addressed them thus: “We are not,” said he, “what we were, savages, but men professing to be taught according to the gospel. Let us then do accordingly. Live peaceably with all men. Remain together as you have done since I knew you. Behave to a teacher sent to you as one sent of God. I feel that I love God; my former life is stained with blood; but Jesus Christ has pardoned me, and I am going to heaven. O beware of falling into the same evils into which I led you frequently! But seek God, and you will find Him.”
ML-02/26/1978