ANGLICAN CHURCH MISSIONS. 293 
The Berlin and Paris, as well as the Ame- 
rican Societies, and various other dissenting 
bodies from England and Scotland, are repre- 
sented by their respective teachers in Kaffir- 
land ; and all have, more or less, fruits spring- 
ing up from their labours of love. 
Whilst, however, giving due credit to the 
zeal and laborious energy of the various bands of 
supplementary corps, who from the first, may 
have been engaged ; it must, nevertheless, not 
be forgotten, that the regular troops, whenever 
they become engaged, are looked upon as those 
who are expected to bear the heat and brunt 
of the battle. They are those who, wherever 
they are, represent the efforts and honor of that 
nation to which they belong. And this applies 
as much to the Missionary soldiers of the An- 
glican Church, as to the services of Britain's 
brave naval and military defenders. 
Hence it is, that the extensive and pro- 
mising Missions of the South African Branch 
of Christ's Church, as now maintained and fos- 
tered there, by the venerable and incorporated 
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in 
Foreign Parts, are occupying the attention of 
all those who feel interested in Missionary work. 
This offshoot branch of the Anglican Church 
of Christ, was founded and established on St. 
Peter's day, in the year 1847; when, through 
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