"But the people are so bad!"
"That is why I want to go to them."
"But what can you do to them?"
"I can tell them of the Lord Jesus, Julia. They have never heard of him; that is why they are so evil."
"Maybe they won't believe you, Mr. Rhys."
"Maybe they will. But the Lord has commanded me to go, all the same."
"How, Mr. Rhys?"
He answered in the beautiful words of Paul—"How shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?" There was a sorrowful depth in his tones, speaking to himself rather than to his little listener.
"Mr. Rhys, they are such dreadfully bad people, they might kill you, and eat you."
"Yes."