Colenso, John William, Ten weeks in Natal

(Cambridge [Eng.] :  Macmillan & Co.,  1855.)

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TEN WEEKS IN NATAL.
 

On Thursday evening, Dec. 15, 1853, I sailed from
Plymouth, in company with the Bishop of Capetown
and Mrs. Gray, in the G. S. S. S. Calcutta, Captain
Goodall, for the Cape.

My reason for leaving England so soon after the
Consecration, which took place on Nov. 30, was, that
1 might personally inspect the state of things in
Natal, and form a correct estimate of the measures
which were needed, for conducting efficiently the
Missions of the Church in that sadly neglected
colony. It was now four years, and more, since the
Bishop of Capetown had visited it; but without
being able, for want of funds, to do anything towards
supplying the grievous spiritual needs of the district,
where there was not at that time (nor is at the
present) a single church, chapel, or school, erected
for the use of the members of the Church of England,
nor a single Church Missionary, (and very few of any
denomination of Christians,) to publish the word of
God among the vast body of natives inhabiting the
land. And, in the interval, important changes had
taken place, I was well aware, in the condition and

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