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JOURNEY TO BETflELSDORP. 
[1813. 
their neighbours offered twenty dollars to take two of 
their waggons over it, she would refuse, but she did 
this for the cause of God, and well she may, for she 
owes even her own soul to the missionaries, as Gods 
instruments, and her husband, I trust, is equally in- 
debted to them, and many others scattered over this 
part of Africa. He told me, that before the mis- 
sionaries came among them, the people around, who 
called themselves christians, knew little more than 
their cattle ; now there are christians indeed, here and 
there; all, directly, or indirectly, the result of mis- 
sionary labours. Many of these grains of wheat have 
sprung up almost imperceptibly. The knowledge of 
divine things has been handed from person to person, 
according to the parable of our Lord concerning the 
leaven put into a measure of meal. The wisdom 
displayed by the Redeemer in his parables, and many 
of his sayings has struck me more forcibly since I 
went into Africa, than ever before. 
In the evening Cupido had an opportunity of 
preaching at Mr. Standards, to upwards of thirty 
people, almost all blacks. Several belonged to wag- 
gons, that like our own, had halted for the night. I 
never felt a stronger desire to be able to preach in 
the Dutch language than upon this occasion. While 
writing, four black females were passing my tent 
door, each saying, good evening, as they were 
about to depart with their master. I inquired 
if they could read— with most significant shakes of 
their heads, they all said, No; but that they had 
