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SOUTHERN AFRICA, 
of Cape Town, was, at the same time, consti- 
tuted Metropolitan of South Africa. This has 
had the desired effect of increasing the Clergy, 
who now number, scattered through the three 
Dioceses, upwards of seventy ; to these are also 
to be added about forty Catechists, who are as- 
sisting in the work. 
Through every part of these Colonies the Eng- 
lish population are now provided with the de- 
cent and orderly ministrations of their Church ; 
whilst extensive Missions amongst the heathen 
are already not only contemplated and estab- 
lished, but at work. 
These are supported, jointly and equally, be- 
tween the British Government and the incor- 
porated Society for the Propagation of the Gos- 
pel in Foreign Parts. A large head Station 
has been established at, or near the u kraal" 
of each Kaffir chief ; whilst out-stations, under 
the superintendence of catechists, are scattered 
over the whole of Kaffirland : and thus, at 
length, the English Church has awakened to 
her national duty of making known, to the 
heathen of South Africa, not merely the know- 
ledge of her power and sway, but also of her 
God and His Church. 
"It is impossible to overrate," to use the 
words of Dr. Armstrong, the Bishop of Graham's 
Town, "the importance of this present crisis, as 
