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the inhabitants of these dark places of the earth ; and now 

 we contemplate their spiritual gloom. 



There are some very striking facts connected with the 

 religious condition of the tribes of the South African con- 

 tinent. This is likewise to be regarded in a twofold aspect. 

 Those in the south are not idolaters ; whilst those farther 

 north are so. Then, again, the tribes in the south have 

 their rain-doctors, to make the rain ; and those in the 

 north have theirs to prevent its falling. The people of 

 the south have no external worship, and hence are some- 

 times wrongly regarded as infidels, while those of the 

 north are more prone to worship, and have outward rites. 

 These latter have also somewhat the brighter religious 

 perceptions. 



m . , On this subject authorities are somewhat at 



The ideas of . 



God entertain- issue. In the estimation of some persons, 



ed by the South m any Africans have no idea whatever of a 



African tribes, _, _, . . . . 



tooether with Supreme Being; according to the statements 



their worship f others, all have some such an idea. 



of Morimo and „ , . . , , , 



Barimo. Doubtless savages in general are thorough 



sensualists ; still the spirit, within bears witness 



by its own promptings, longings and activity, of a something 



and a some one beyond what sense can see or feel. 



From long intercourse and observation, perhaps, Mr 

 Moffat and Dr Livingstone are the best authorities on the 

 subject. Their experiences and conclusions are evidently 

 different. 



Mr Moffat says of the Bechuanas, Hottentots and Bush- 

 men, that he believes Satan to have erased every vestige of 

 religious impression from their minds. Concerning the 

 Bechuanas, he remarks: "To tell them, the gravest of 

 them, that there was a Creator, the Governor of the hea- 

 vens and earth, — of the fall of man, or the redemption of 

 the world, the resurrection of the dead, and immortality 

 beyond the grave, was to tell them what appeared to be 



