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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: younger.
While the magic lantern was showing, I skulked without in the dark.
The voice of Maka, excitedly explaining the Scripture slides,
seemed to fill not the church only, but the neighbourhood. All
else was silent. Presently a distant sound of singing arose and
approached; and a procession drew near along the road, the hot
clean smell of the men and women striking in my face delightfully.
At the corner, arrested by the voice of Maka and the lightening and
darkening of the church, they paused. They had no mind to go
nearer, that was plain. They were Makin people, I believe,
probably staunch heathens, contemners of the missionary and his
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