baptize, or so apt to
reckon success by the number of their converts. They are more cautious
in ordaining native pastors. The aid of such pastors is indispensable,
but the importance of the example which the native preacher or teacher
sets makes it necessary to be careful in selection. The dogma of the
equality of the black man and the white, which was warmly insisted on in
the old days, and often roused the wrath of the Boers, has now been
silently dropped. It was a dogma wholesome to inculcate so far as
equality of protection was concerned, but its wider application led the
early philanthropists of South Africa, as it led their excellent
contemporaries, the Abolitionists of America, to some strange
conclusions. Perceiving that other influences ought to go hand in hand
with religion in helping the natives forward, the missionaries now
devote themselves more than formerly to secular instruction, and
endeavour to train the people to habits of industry. The work of
education is indeed entirely in their hands. Special mention is due to
one admirable institution, that which was founded by the Free Church of
Scotland at Lovedale, in the Eastern Province, not far from King
William's Town, nearly fifty years ago. Conducted on wholly
non-sectarian lines, it receives coloured people, together with some
whites, not only from the Colony, but from all parts of Africa--there
are even Galla boys from the borders of Abyssinia in it--and gives an
excellent education, fitting young men and women not only for the native
ministry, but for the professions: and it is admitted even by those who
are least friendly to missionary work to have rendered immense services
to the natives. I visited it, and was greatly struck by the tone and
spirit which seemed to pervade it, a spirit whose results are seen in
the character and careers of many among its graduates. A race in the
present condition of the Kafirs needs nothing more than the creation of
a body of intelligent and educated persons of its own blood, who are
able to enter into the difficulties of their humbler kinsfolk and guide
them wisely. Dr. Stewart, who has directed the institution for many
years, possesses that best kind of missionary temperament, in which a
hopeful spirit and an inexhaustible sympathy are balanced by Scottish
shrewdness and a cool judgment.

One of the greatest among the difficulties which confront the
missionaries is to know how to deal with polygamy, a practice deep