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supply of mioisters and teachers, who Y. ere willing to devote them- 
selves to the work of God among the heathen, and especially among 
the Hottentots; and in prayer commended those who had just 
now arrived, to the guidance of His Holy Spirit, in all their future 
labours; praising Him for having brought them safely to this place. 
I then delivered a salutation from the Society for the Furtherance 
of the Gospel, and all our congregations in England, to the congre- 
gation of Christian Hottentots at Groenekloof. Brother Clemens 
did tlie same from the Elder's Conference of the Unity'*, and the 
congregations in Germany. The Hottentots, of whom about a 
hundred and fifty were present, answered by loud thanksgivings. 
On quitting the chapel, sevt;ral came to shake hands with us, saying, 
that they were not worthy, that we should come so far to serve 
them. 
31st. After the forenoon's service, a Hottentot accosted me, 
desiring to speak with me alone. As I could not understand him, 
I requested Brother Schmitt to be present. The poor man came 
to make confession of his having been seduced by an' old com- 
panion at Capetown, to drink more than he ought to have done; 
that he had thus overslept himself behind a bush, at the place where 
we spent the first part of the night, and suffered the cattle to go 
astra}^; and that he now came to ask forgiveness. Though his 
situation at that time was not observed by us, yet it had given 
offence to the Hottentots; and w^e represented to him, that he 
had not only hurt his own soul, but brought disgrace upon the 
cause of the gospel: that therefore it was necessary, for the present, 
to exclude him from the meetings of the baptized; to which sen- 
tence. Brother Schmitt added some serious and fatherly admoni- 
tions. His tears showed the grief he felt, and, as we hoped, his true 
* The Committee or Board of Bishops and Elders of the Church of the United Bre- 
thren, appointed by the General Synods for the superintendence and management of 
the affairs of the Church from one Synod to another. (See Crantz's History of the 
Brethren). 
