the same benches, except at Lovedale and in one or two of the mission
schools in Cape Town, to which, as charging very low fees, some of the
poorest whites send their children. I heard of a wealthy coloured man at
the Paarl, a Dutch town north of Cape Town, who complained that, though
he paid a considerable sum in taxes, he was not permitted to send his
daughter to any of the schools in the place. In the Protestant
Episcopal, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Methodist Churches, and
of course among the Roman Catholics, blacks are admitted along with
whites to the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; but this (so I was told)
is not the case in the Dutch Reformed Church. An eminent and thoughtful
ecclesiastic in Natal deplored to me the complete want of sympathy on
the part of the white congregations with the black ones worshipping near
them. It rarely, if ever, happens that a native, whatever his standing
among his own people,--for to the white there is practically no
difference between one black and another,--is received within a white
man's house on any social occasion; indeed, he would seldom be
permitted, save as a servant, to enter a private house, but would be
received on the _stoep_ (veranda). When Khama, the most important chief
now left south of the Zambesi, a Christian and a man of high personal
character, was in England in 1895, and was entertained at lunch by the
Duke of Westminster and other persons of social eminence, the news of
the reception given him excited annoyance and disgust among the whites
in South Africa. I was told that at a garden-party given a few years ago
by the wife of a white bishop, the appearance of a native clergyman
caused many of the white guests to withdraw in dudgeon. Once when
myself a guest at a mission station in Basutoland I was asked by my host
whether I had any objection to his inviting to the family meal a native
pastor who had been preaching to the native congregation. When I
expressed surprise at the question, my host explained that race feeling
was so strong among the colonists that it would be deemed improper, and
indeed insulting, to make a black man sit down at the same table with a
white guest, unless the express permission of the latter had been first
obtained. But apart from this social disparagement, the native does not
suffer much actual wrong. Now and then, on a remote farm, the employer
will chastise his servant with a harshness he would not venture to apply
to a wh