SO EASTER-DAY AT GNADENDAAL. 
among the despised and degraded natives. _ It is now 
one of the most flourishing stations within the Co- 
lony, and the order and regularity which characterizes 
its arrangements cannot fail to excite the admiration 
of all who visit this delightful valley. 
Their festivals and religious services are marked 
by a degree of simplicity that seems to connect them 
with the primitive ages of Christianity ; while the 
exquisite melody of their German airs, as sung to the 
hymns which their ancestors composed under perse- 
cution, amidst the mountains of Bohemia, are calcu- 
lated to produce feelings of deep and powerful in- 
terest. 
In order that my readers may form some idea of 
the simple and impressive character of their service, 
and how calculated it is to arrest the attention and 
awaken in the mind of the unlettered Hottentot 
new and devout feeling, I will here insert, from the 
pen of an able writer, a description of their Easter 
festival, as witnessed at this Station of Gnadendaal, 
or Vale of Grace. 
‘On the morning of Easter-day, the Hottentot 
congregation, with many strangers, both native and 
European, had assembled in the burial ground, by 
the early hour at which Mary, on the first day of 
the week, went to the sepulchre. About a thousand 
persons, old and young, were present at the reading — 
of the litany of their ancient church specially ap- 
pointed for that purpose, in the open air. All was 
