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of wliat we found it to be. In the afternoon, he invited several 
friends to meet us, with whom we spent a very pleasant evening. 
The hmddrost being a great lover of music, I did not Avant much 
entreaty to play for him many of Haydn's and Mozart's composi- 
tions, which, though familiar to me, were new to him, and seemed 
to afford him great delight. When the company had retired, we 
took a walk to see the new church now building, after a design of 
Mr. Petersen, the Government Surveyor. The outer walls and roof 
were finished. It will be a handsome structure in the Grecian 
style, and contain from a thousand to fifteen hundred people, but 
without a steeple, on account of the high winds, or rather, the low 
state of the town-purse. The clerg3^man's house will be placed on 
one, and the school on the other side of the church, forming a 
handsome range of buildings. 
17th. Being Sunday, we prepared to go to church. Service is 
now performed in a farm-house, the inner walls being taken out, so 
as to form a spacious room, holding about two hundred people. 
In the morning, the whole country Avas enveloped in a thick fog, 
but it dispersed during the forenoon. We accompanied the land- 
drost in his travelling waggon, drawn by four horses, to the tempo- 
rary church, and found an assistant, reading a sermon to about sixty 
hearers. It was a dry discussion of doctrinal points, with an attempt, 
in the usual way, to prove the doctrine of particular election and 
reprobation, which tended but little to edification. The reader, 
however, concluded with an extempore prayer, in a strain of humihty 
and true christian charity, which seemed to proceed from his heart. 
We regretted, therefore, the more, that he was not left to preach the 
doctrine of salvation by faith in the merits of Jesus Christ, the Sa- 
viour of all repenting sinners, but obliged to unfurl the banner of a 
party, in reading a controversial discourse. The concluding hymn 
Avas accompanied on an organ, much out of tunc. After service, 
we took a walk in the garden, and on our return, ascending the foot 
of the mountain in the waggon, visited the woods on its declivity, 
admiring the luxuriant growth of many large timber-trees. 
