156 APPENDIX. [sect. 



anything else, demolishes that sense of isolation which 

 heathenism engenders, and makes the tribes feel themselves 

 mutually dependent on, and mutually beneficial to, each 

 other'." 



The difficulty of getting the natives at first to attend 

 with reverence on divine service, or to religious duties, has 

 been before dwelt on 2 . When Dr Livingstone attempted to 

 sing or pray among the Bakalahari, these people burst out 

 into a fit of uncontrollable laughter, thinking him to be mad, 

 or that he judged them to be so. 



Then, again, a native literature has to be founded and 

 extended. This is a work requiring much time and labour, 

 especially in a country wherein languages have to be 

 arranged in grammars, and over the thousands of whose 

 square miles not a bookseller's shop is to be found. 

 Still these difficulties will be overcome. Those Christian 

 missionaries who first came to the British Islands before 

 St Augustine, as well as he, found our forefathers half- 

 clad savages; and what has Christianity after the lapse 

 of ages made us now? — The greatest nation standing in 

 the forefront of the civilization of the most astonishing 

 age of the world's history. Let Britain fulfil her mission; 

 especially towards Africa, whom she has, in former years, 

 helped to degrade, enslave and curse. 



Missionary There is no doubt whatever but that our 



shortcomings National Church is much behind in missionary 

 in South Af- effort among these people. She certainly has 

 a Bishop of Sierra Leone, Cape Town, Gra- 

 ham's Town, and Natal : together with the missionaries be- 

 longing to the two great Societies before mentioned. But 

 these are labouring mainly in our own Colonies. She has 

 few missions among the real heathen in Africa ; especially 

 in the South. 



Dr Livingstone says that Sectarianism is a source of 



1 Travels, pp. 27 — 28. 2 Appendix, p. 148. 



