enlarged conceptions of his glorious attributes, his perfections, and his Godhead. Many hundreds now not only believe that there is a God; but that he is wise, holy, just, and good; and in some this faith is in various degrees influential, especially in those who have repented of their sins, and who have been baptized in the name of the Holy Trinity.

While, however, the names of God, the Maker of all things, were retained in their language, no worship of any kind was paid to him. Throughout the length and breadth of the land, amongst all these tribes, there was no Sabbath. Day and night succeeded each other from year to year without the hallowed day of rest. All days were alike common to them while they lived without God, and without hope in the world.' But the word of God creates a Sabbath wherever it comes; and in this respect it hath wrought a new thing in the land, there being now hundreds worshipping God on the Lord's day, where, a few years since, none sought him. This cannot but afford ground of holy rejoicing to all who have learned not to despise the day of small things.'

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Although circumcision is practised on all youths when thirteen or fourteen years of age, it is exclusively a civil rite, and not in any way connected with religion. uncircumcised son would be incapable of inheriting his father's property. The origin of this rite is, with them, completely obliterated; nor can anything exceed the astonishment which the Kaffers have often manifested, when hearing of the first institution of it in the days of Abraham. To this people British benevolence has given, though not to the extent required, Christian Ministers; men, to them of a strange language, who yet are enabled, through the medium of interpreters, in many cases singularly prepared for this work by divine Providence, to teach them to worship God in spirit and in truth; who direct them to the sacrificial offering of Christ,

as the sole ground of pardon and acceptance with God; who insist on the necessity of circumcision of heart, as alone morally beneficial under the Christian dispensation; who have established amongst them the Christian sacraments of baptism, and the supper of the Lord; and who are providing for another generation the word of God in their own tongue, and preparing the young to read that word by which they may be saved. For these nations had formerly no learning. They were a people without a book. They had no letter; no hieroglyphic, or written character of any kind. For the origin of these things they are indebted, not to infidelity, nor to Captain Stout's irreligious scheme, but to Christianity; in which indeed is all our happiness and glory.

Though destitute of religion, superstition, which is too often substituted for it, was, as foregoing facts abundantly show, every where met with. On the banks of the River Xakoon, there is a tremendous craggy precipice, called by the Kaffers, Uwa Amaqira, or the Doctor's precipice, because they who were accused of bewitching their neighbours by those deceivers, were brought by Kahabi to this place; and, being bound hand and foot, were cast over, and, falling from crag to crag, were dashed to pieces ere they came to the bottom. For many years past, however, no victim has perished on this spot; nor is it likely that any more authorized murders will take place there.

As to morality, neither the theory nor practice of it was discernible amongst them in their native state. There was no justice, no mercy, no holiness, no truth; there was none that did good, no not one. On the contrary, wickedness overspread the whole land, which was full of" thefts, covetousness, lasciviousness," and almost every species of crime. Iniquity thus reigned unto death, uncontrolled and unchecked, so far as the eye of man could discern; for the people seemed to be without any

law which condemned vicious propensities, or any fear of the righteous indignation of God. That they were not absolutely without law, is evident from the circumstance of their having had for all generations words which denote moral delinquency, as izono, sin; umoni, sinner; okungalungileyo, unrighteousness; and isiqiti, transgression; besides particular words for particular offences, as theft, lying, whoredom, &c. But though they had the universal law of nature from God himself, still the vail was on their hearts, and, through the love of sin, their eyes were blinded that they could not discern it. Sin abounded to such an alarming extent, that they appeared to be without law; and unless grace had much more abounded, sending unto them the Gospel, none would have been redeemed from his iniquity," or " turned from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God." But by the word of salvation, this change has been effected; and there are now Kaffers to be found, who may be truly denominated moral men; men whose altered state is forcibly portrayed in the following beautiful stanzas, (composed on the conversion of a late African Chief, by the Rev. William Swan,) " obedience to the faith " being manifest in the truth, honesty, industry, and general integrity of their lives.

THERE was a man whose very name once shed
The dews of death on every heart around;
With nightly draughts of reeking blood he fed
His glutton idol MURDER. His soul found
Its solace in the wild distracted sound
Of parents shrieking for their children slain,

Of children wailing when the moisten'd ground
The blood of parents did with crimson stain;
Destruction his delight, his pastime to give pain.

But now he cultivates his peaceful vale!

Around him youth and age in safety sleep,
And hail him with a smile! This is no tale
Drawn from the records Monkish craft did keep;

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