“Is it likely that eight Englishmen should start for Central Africa and all be alive six months after? One of us at least will surely fall. When the news comes, do not be cast down, but send someone else immediately to take the vacant place.” —Alexander Mackay, leader of a group of eight missionaries to plant a church in Uganda in the 1870s, speaking to Christians in England before he left. He would die of malaria at age 40, while working on a translation of Johns gospel.
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