lowing Sabbath; that should we never again =have the privilege of visiting them, we might have the satisfaction of celebrating the Saviour's love together before we parted.

The proposal was agreeable to all, and the following Lord's-day, in addition to the other services, we met for this purpose. A goodly company of several hundred members sat down, though it not having been generally known, many of the members who live at a distance, and who have it not in their power to attend every Sabbath, were not present. It was a delightful season,

and while we felt a oneness with the dear people among whom we were, our thoughts were insensibly carried forward to the time when people of every nation, language, and colour, shall meet around that table which shall never be drawn, in the kingdom of our blessed Redeemer; and we prayed that we might see his kingdom spreading on earth till all should know him from the least even unto the greatest.

On Monday we went to visit Read's Dale, one of the most beautiful of the locations. We called at many of the houses, and were hospitably entertained by the Field Cornet, one of the Hottentot magistrates. Perhaps I should have mentioned that at the different places which we visited, the people provided us with refreshments, either dinner, tea, or milk in abundance. To-day our host had provided most bountifully every thing excellent of its kind, and served up with cleanliness and comfort. I only mention this to show that there is a growing improvement among the people, and that they are not at all insensible to the conveniences or comforts of life. We

were delighted with the pleasure evinced by these good people in the bounties with which God has crowned them; and we trust that they may be the means of leading them to honour God with their substance, and with the first-fruits of their increase. Their crops, though partially injured by the rust, have been more productive than most of the others, having from their neighbourhood to the mountains been favoured with more abundant rain. While at dinner a thunder storm came on with abundance of rain, a pleasant sight in this country.

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On Wednesday, the people met from the different locations to take leave of us, and again to receive the word of exhortation. This meeting I was unable to attend, but I was told that it was very interesting. Philip urged upon them the cultivation of all those virtues which he saw required to be invigorated, guarded them against those dangers to which he saw them exposed, and particularly pressed upon them the necessity of cultivating personal and family religion, and of endeavouring to promote the interests of piety among the people by whom they were surrounded.

We left Philipton on Thursday, the 20th of December, the people showed their kindness by furnishing us with such provisions as they had, and thought would be useful to us on our journey. A number accompanied us for five or six miles to the location of Vanderkemp, and we parted from them thanking God for what our eyes had seen and our ears heard of the work of the Lord.

The same day we passed the boundary of the colony, and entered Caffreland.

John Burns* was a Caffre, and the son of a Pakati, or head man, who was one of the counsellors of the late chief Gaika. The father and son spent some time with the late Mr. Williams, at Kat River, in 1817. John Burns was then a boy, but it seems his mind received at that time some impressions in favour of religion. After

the death of Mr. Williams he removed to the Chumie River, and was some time under the instruction of Mr. Brownlee, and afterwards of the Missionaries of the Glasgow Missionary Society. This was the period at which he appears to have become savingly acquainted with the way of salvation; he was baptised and received into

here on my return from England, I engaged him and another to become native teachers to the people of Macomo and Botman. On being informed of this, Macomo expressed high satisfaction, called one of his counsellors in our presence, and said that these two men were appointed by Congola,† to sow the word of God among his and Botman's people, and that he must make it known in every direction so that the teachers might meet with every protection and encouragement.

Burns and his companion made several interesting excursions, and reported that they had been every where received with kindness, and listened to with attention; they mentioned more especially some Caffre women, who, as they said, were ready to eat the word that came out of their mouths. John Burns was full of zeal. Before we employed him he seemed quite unhappy at not being engaged in the Lord's work; it was chiefly on account of his wife and family that he left the Chumie, for he loved the Missionaries, and loved his work; however, his work was soon ended. Not more than three months elapsed after he joined us, when he was laid up with a severe cough, his lungs became affected, and a consumption ensued. We had no idea at the beginning of his illness that his end was so near, but his work was done, and he was ripe for glory. He at first prayed very earnestly that, although he was not unwilling to die, yet if it were the will of God, he might be spared a little longer to preach Jesus Christ to the Caffres; but after he began to feel that death would be the result, he said his path to heaven was opened, that his soul was in Christ's hand, that he longed for heaven as if it were a place where he had once been; he told his wife and friends that the few days given him were only to make known to them more of the Lord's will, that Satan had been trying to weaken his faith, but that he had not been able in the least degree to shake his trust in Christ; that thus he had gained the victory; that his friends should not be alarmed about his safety, that his wrestling was only the pain of the body, but with the soul all was well. The Lord, he said, had sur

rounded him with his presence, the everlasting arms were above and beneath him, and had made his bed in sickness; and when the symptoms of death approached, and he could with difficulty speak, he said to his friends that his expected end was near, that he had fled to Christ in time for refuge, and that it was his own experience of the preciousness of the salvation of Christ which had urged him to go about among the Caffres to warn them to flee from the wrath to come. During his illness, he could not bear any worldly conversation; nothing would he hear except about Jesus Christ. He said he felt no regret in leav ing this world, nor in parting from his friends and connexions; his only regret was that he could not go again and preach the Gospel to his nation, and almost with his dying breath he asked if it were not possible to take him on horseback to address the Caffres for the last time. He was most anxious to admonish his friends to the last; if they did not come he sent for them, and said they must not be concerned about the pain he was suffering, since the road to hea ven was through disease and death. He told his wife not to be alarmed at the thought of his leaving her suddenly. Next he sent for his children, and prayed with them and those about him, and as the last word was uttered, his breath failed, and he expired without a struggle.

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Our brother died on the Saturday mornWhen I received information of his death, I went down to Blinkwater, twenty miles distant from this place, and on Sunday, after service in the forenoon, we committed his body to the grave. Macomo and many of the Caffres attended the burial; it was a most solemn occasion. After an address at the grave, we returned to the shady trees on the river, and I preached from the words, "for me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." My prayer is, that the impression made may be abiding. Our departed brother has left a widow and three children; his wife is a pious woman; she said that her joy in witnessing her husband's happy state of mind, more than compensated for the weight of grief his death has caused her.