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good fruits have resulted. The London Society has now 

 twelve stations entirely supported by the natives on the spot. 



The venerable Christian Knowledge Society has been 

 long forwarding the cause of Missions in South Africa, in 

 its own useful and peculiar line of operations. Grants of books 

 or of money for the support of Missionaries, building of 

 Schools, Churches, Cathedrals, &c, have been constantly 

 made by this Society at Cape Town, Graham's Town, or Xatal. 



The Religious Tract and Bible Societies have likewise 

 acted the part of the Missionary to Missionaries, since 

 they have supplied the latter with Bibles, literature, &c, 

 wherewith to second their own personal endeavours to teach 

 and improve the people. 



The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign 

 Parts has establishments in our own African Colonies, in ac- 

 cordance with its main object of sending the Gospel to our 

 countrymen abroad. It has commenced missions with suc- 

 cess among the Zoolus and other heathen tribes. 



The Church Missionary Society has stations at Sierra 

 Leone, as well as on and in the neighbourhood of the Niger. 

 Its Yoruba mission is well-known 1 . 



The operations of this Society refer directly to North 

 Africa, but also indirectly to the South, since many slaves 

 from these latter regions are landed by our cruisers at Sierra 

 Leone. This Society has no mission in South Africa. 



Keeping the central regions in view, one fact connected 



1 An examination of a missionary map of South Africa will shew that 

 the stations of the following British and Foreign Protestant Missionary 

 Societies are dotted over the Southern half of the Continent : — the 

 American Mission, the Baptist Mission, the Berlin Missionary Society, 

 the Christian Knowledge Society, the French Protestant Mission, the 

 Glasgow Mission, the London Mission, the Paris Mission, the Rhenish 

 Mission, the Scotch Mission, the Society for the Propagation of the 

 Gospel in Foreign Parts, the Moravian or United Brethren Society 

 and the "Wesleyan Mission. 



