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blessing upon tliem and their nation, loud thanksgivings followed. 
To us new-comers, it was a truly gratifying and alfecting sight, to 
see so large a number of Christian Hottentots assembled together, 
and to hear them, with heart and voice, joining in the worship of Him, 
with whom there is no respect of persons, but whose grace and mercy 
are free to all of every tribe and nation, who humbly seek his face. 
I was very comfortably lodged, and cannot but here acknowledge, 
with gratitude, the kindness of the widow of the late missionary 
Philip Kohrhammer. Ste had retired to a small chamber in an 
out-house, and insisted on my taking possession of her room in the 
mission-house. 
l6th. When I awoke in the morning, 1 could hardly believe, that 
I was actually at Gnadenthal; a place, which for so many years has 
been the subject of my thoughts and my prayers; of which I have 
so long delighted to speak and write, and which 1 have so often 
visited in spirit. It was my most fervent wish and prayer, that the 
Lord would make this visit profitably to my own soul; and, if 1 
might be thus highly favoured, beneficial to the cause I came to 
to serve. 
Immediately after breakfast, I went into the church. From with- 
out, its appearance by no means exhibits the classical taste of the 
architect: but it is imposing by its size, the thickness of its walls, 
which are of unburnt brick, plaistered and yellow-washed, its arched 
windows, its high roof, and its gable-ends, serrated or finished in 
short steps, with a vane on the point of each. In short, it looks like 
nothing else, and its general character immediately pronounces it 
to be a place of worship. The heiglit of its roof makes it a very 
conspicuous object in approaching the valley from every side, and 
nothino; is wantinsr but a slender turret in the centre of the roof of 
about twenty or thirty feet in height, to give it all the appearance 
of an ancient ecclesiastical building. The doors are, in my opinion, 
on the wrong side. It should turn its main front to the village, 
whereas, no w, it faces the grove and the missionaries'dvvellings. Two 
arched windows are placed between the doors, and one between 
