CHAPTER VI. 
RETURN FROM GRAAFFREYNET TO THE BOUNDARY OF THE COLONY. 
April 2Sth. Every preparation for departure being now completed, 
Mr. Kicherer assembled his family and servants, to whom were added 
some visitors then stopping at his house and part of my own people, 
for the purpose of joining in prayers on this occasion. I must have 
had neither feeling nor religion, not to have been affected at beholding 
an assembly of this kind, on their knees, praying ' with one accord ' 
for my safety and for that of my people, and offering supplications 
that we might be shielded from the many dangers to which we were 
about to be exposed. When acts of devotion have the effect of 
drawing man nearer not only to his Creator, but to his fellow- 
creatures, he may feel assured that he possesses true religion. But 
who will be so impious and weak as to assert that prayer can be 
a useful exercise of the mind, unless it produce both these effects ? 
It is not their professions, but the actions and conduct of men, 
