l6 STELLENBOSCH. ^ 1812.J 
Mr. B. related the following history of the female 
who addressed Mr. K. after the service : " She lives 
at a distance in the country. About three weeks ago 
she made her first appearance at his meeting. His 
sermon respected the strayed sheep. When he had 
finished, she came forward and confessed she was that 
strayed sheep, and asked further instruction concerning 
Jesus Christ. She confessed she had often spoken 
against the slave meeting, but added, she loved it 
now. On the following sabbath she said, Jesus at first 
brought her to himself, but she must come to him 
every day, wicked and unworthy as she was. She at- 
tends regularly and hears attentively. 
When visiting our missionary, Mr. Messer, who 
lives with Mr. Rose, a farmer about five miles from Stel- 
lenbosch, instructing his and the neighbouring slaves, 
I discovered what I did not expect. Mr. Newton, 
late rector of St. Mary Woolnoth, many years ago 
sent me a little volume, entitled, " Seven Letters from 
a foreign Clergyman to Mr. N n, and translated 
from the original Latin by Mr. Cowper ;" but who, or 
where the clergyman resided, was concealed. I dis- 
covered that this clergyman was Helperus Ritzema 
van Lier, minister of the Reformed Church at Cape- 
town, South Africa, where he died March 17th, 1793, 
aged twenty-eight years and five months. A little be- 
fore his death, being informed by his physician that 
his departure was at hand, he exclaimed, "Triumph! 
" Triumph ! Triumph ! Blessed be God, I have over- 
" come through the blood of the Lamb ! Hallelujah I 
