LINDLEY, DANIEL, u.D., b. Penn.; graduated at the Ohio university, of which his father was president; taught school to pay his way through the Union theological semi nary of Virginia, where lie graduated in 1829; was immediately licensed to preach by the presbytery. For three vears he preached in Charlotte, N. C., and saw several hun dred added to the church. 'When an appeal was madc by the American board for settled pastors to become missionaries, he offered his services. He married Lucy Allen of Richmond, Va., and sailed in 1834 for the cape of Good IIope. From Cape Town they journeyed by wagons 500 m. to Griqua Tov,,n, thence the next year 500 farther to Mosika, the country of Mosilikatse. After encountering great peril and suffering in the war between the Dutch and Mosilikatse, reduced almost to starvation, they reached Port Natal, whence shortly they were driven by war between the Dutch and Dingaan, great-uncle of Cetywayo. In June, 1839, he returned to Port Natal, where he labored
among the Zulus for about thirty-five years. Not only (lid he make known to them Jesus uhrist, but when the nativ,3 Christians wished to improve their modes of life, though not a mechanic, he could show them how to make brick, to build houses, to construct a few implements an4pieces of furniture. In sickneSs he ministered to them; if a tiger or a lion threatened, his rifle never missed its aim; though he was neither physician nor sportsman. The Zulus honored and loved him. The Dutch Boers, whose wanderings he had shared when war drove hint from his home and work among the natives, said, " If there be a human name that wartns the heart of a Natal Teck Boer, it is the ever-to be-remembered name of Daniel Lindley." He died at Morristown, N. J., Sept: 3, 1880.