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SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
lies about 170 miles to the East of Cape Town, 
and is still one of the principal scenes of labour 
for the Moravian Missionaries, though its name 
has since been changed to Genadendal (Valley 
of Grace.) 
This was the yery spot where Schmidt once 
laboured. They found part of the wall of his 
house standing, and fragments of others which 
pointed out the situation of the huts of his little 
flock. Amidst briars and thorns, which had 
grown up oyer his garden — meet emblem of 
the moral wilderness overspreading the spiritual 
soil which he had cultivated — there were yet 
to be seen some fruit-trees planted by his 
hands. And one old pear-tree, in particular, re- 
markable for size and luxuriance, afforded, for 
many years, a shelter to the patient Missionaries 
and their hearers, while they sat and spake 
together of the things of God. 
Nor was this all. There were actual proofs 
of the abiding effects of those by-gone labours. 
The new teachers were soon surrounded by a 
number of Hottentots, whose parents, or grand- 
parents, had personally known Schmidt, and 
had long and anxiously wished for his return, 
They had died, indeed, without that consolation : 
but they had taught their children, as best 
they could, the knowledge they had themselves 
received, and they had charged them to seek 
