CHAP. VIII. 
VILLAGE OF OUDSHORN. 
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every step, taking one part; and they have every prospect of 
soon beholding the whole their own.* The few regulations of 
the community are simple and judicious. One is, that no in¬ 
toxicating drink shall be sold in the place. Every one of these 
men gave his vote at the late election of members to be sent 
by this district to the South African parliament; I was told 
that their suffrages were solicited by more than one candidate. 
Arrangements were made while I was there for securing 
the services of a schoolmaster; and they hope, ultimately, to 
provide the requisite means for their own spiritual instruc¬ 
tion. I left them not only with a high degree of satisfaction, 
on account of what I had witnessed, but with sentiments of 
deep respect; and at our last parting interview I alluded to 
the goodness of Grod towards them, their own great responsi¬ 
bility, and the glorious future before them as being among 
the pioneers of their class throughout the country. 
After a fatiguing journey—a great part of the way through 
the rocky defiles which we had previously traversed—we 
reached the recently-established but thriving village of Oud- 
shorn. The labours of Mr. Anderson had been for some time 
divided between the inhabitants of this place and those of 
Dysalsdorp; and early in the evening we met the people in 
the neat substantial chapel, which they had recently erected, 
for the purpose of deliberating on important arrangements 
connected with the education of their children and their own 
religious benefit. I was highly gratified with the lively, ac¬ 
tive, and prosperous state of the Christian community here, 
more especially with the commendable efforts they had made, 
and were still proposing to make, for sustaining the ordinances 
of religion amongst themselves. These laudable purposes 
they have since fully carried out, and their highly-esteemed 
* Within the last few weeks I have learned, by a letter from Mr. Anderson, 
that prosperity still attends this interesting community, that they have paid one 
half the purchase-money of their lands, and have every prospect of paying the 
whole within the stipulated time. 
