Those that looked down on cotton-spinners
with contempt were men who, had they been cotton-spinners at the
beginning, would have been cotton-spinners to the end. The life of toil
was what belonged to the great majority of the race, and to be poor was
no reproach. The Saviour occupied the humble position that they had been
born in, and he looked back on his own past life as having been spent in
the same position in which the Saviour lived.
"My great object," he said, "was to be like Him--to imitate
Him as far as He could be imitated. We have not the power of
working miracles, but we can do a little in the way of
healing the sick, and I sought a medical education in order
that I might be like Him. In Africa I have had hard work. I
don't know that any one in Africa despises a man who works
hard. I find that all eminent men work hard. Eminent
geologists, mineralogists, men of science in every
department, if they attain eminence, work hard, and that both
early and late. That is just what we did.
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