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CAPE-TOWN. 
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After this form was ended, one of tlie priests covered 
his head and face with a white veil, holding in his hand 
a long black staff with a silver head, and advanced in 
front of the chair. When the other had chaunted a 
little, he mounted a step, making a dead halt ; after a 
second chaunting he mounted the second step, and in 
the same way the third, when he sat down upon the 
chair. He descended in the same manner. 
The people were frequently, during this form, 
prostrating themselves in their ranks as regularly as 
soldiers exercising. A corpulent priest then standing 
in a corner, near the chair, with his face to the wall, 
repeated something in a very serious singing manner, 
when the people appeared particularly solemn; after 
which the service concluded. It appeared all to 
consist of forms without any instruction. How different 
the kingdom of Christ ! — according to which mere 
bodily exercise profiteth little. 
