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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

CHAPTER 6
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This beautiful station was made what it is, not by English money, but by the sweat and toil of fathers whose children have, notwithstanding, no place on earth which they can call a home.

The Society's operations may be transferred to the north, and then the strong-built mission premises become the home of a Boer, and the stately stone church his cattle-pen.

This place has been what the monasteries of Europe are said to have been when pure.

The monks did not disdain to hold the plow.

They introduced fruit-trees, flowers, and vegetables, in addition to teaching and emancipating the serfs.


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