ation, "I have laboured in vain, and spent my strength for naught." We who live in these times have nothing to boast of. Our only boast should be in that grace which so wonderfully sustained those who went before with so little success. I venerate their memories for how many of them died not having received the blessings, but embraced the promises. Therefore we look with love and admiration at the founders of our Missionary Societies, and we read their memoirs with feelings which chasten and humble us; but when we look to the apostles and first martyrs in the Missionary cause, what are we, and what are all our sufferings, and the sacrifices which we have made? Above all, when we turn to Calvary and look on the Lord of glory, who bore such contradiction of sinners against himself, and poured out his soul unto death, what shall we say? Keeping this soul-animating spectacle ever in view, let us go on, and go forth to the help of the Lord against the mighty! Let us imitate those who have gone before, and who have received the plaudit-"well done!" I think of one, and I have often thought of him since I entered these sacred walls, I refer to our lamented brother, the late JOHN WILLIAMS,-with whom I had the honour of standing, twenty-three years ago, in Surrey Chapel, when we publicly received our commission to go and preach the Gospel to the heathen. Much of that solemn season is still vivid in my recollection, and I still remember well those who took a part on that occasion. Some are gone to glory. Methinks I still

hear the venerable Dr. Waugh in the fervency of his devotion pray for us: "O thou at whose girdle hang the keys of the destinies of man; who shuttest and none can open; and openest and none can shut; when thou takest the key from thy girdle to open the hearts of the heathen to the message of these thy servants, may they withdraw and hide themselves in the shades of thy glory, that thy name may have all the praise." When I first saw Mr. WILLIAMS, it was supposed that I should be appointed to labour in the South Seas and being both young, probably the youngest the Society ever sent out, we felt a mutual attachment for each other. My destination was fixed for Africa; and when I last saw Mr. WILLIAMS, on taking an affecting farewell, he said to me, "Brother, I had hoped that we were to labour together; but God has appointed you to Africa, and me to the South Seas. We shall meet in heaven." 66 Yes," I responded, "we shall meet in heaven." "I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan! Thou hast fallen on thy high places." But shall we murmur or complain-we who know that though clouds and darkness are around about the throne of Jehovah, justice and righteousness go before? We could have wished that WILLIAMS had remained a little longer; but his Master, and our Master has willed it otherwise. He died as he lived, clad with the armour of his God. Erromanga is now another land of promise. His sepulchre is there. The banner of

the cross will soon wave in Erromanga; and the blood of Him who said of his murderers, "Father, forgive them," will yet wash away the guilt of those who stained their shores with the blood of the martyred WILLIAMS!

"The beam that shines on Sion's hill

Shall lighten every land;

The King that reigns in Salem's towers
Shall all the world command.

Come, then!-oh! come from every land,

Toworship at his shrine;

And, walking in the light of God,

With holy beauties shine!"

NOTES.

NOTE A.-Page 18.

Tsuikuap, or as some tribes pronounce it, Utikuap, is articulated with the click or cluck peculiar to the Hottentot language. In one of my journeys to the back parts of Great Namaqualand, near the Damara country, I met with an aged sorcerer, who said he had always understood that Tsuikuap was a notable warrior of great physical strength; and that in a desperate struggle with another chieftain he received a severe wound in his knee, but having vanquished his enemy, his own name was lost in the mighty combat which made the nation independent; for no one could conquer the wounded knee. I have also heard other relations of the same story. This Tsuikuap they appeared, however, neither to love nor fear; for, during the tremendous thunder-storms which prevail in that climate, and which certainly are an awful demonstration of some Almighty power, I have known the natives shoot their poisoned arrows at the lightning's fearful blaze, in order to arrest its destructive progress.

NOTE B.-Page 18.

I am aware that Uhlanga is also used by the Kafirs to denote the Supreme Being; but from what I know of the habits of the interior tribes, I perfectly agree with the Rv. S. Kay, in his

account of the Amakosa genealogy, that Uhlanga or Thlanga, is the name of their oldest kings, by whom they swore in former times. "It seems to me," says the late Mr. Pringle, in his "African Sketches," "therefore, doubtful, whether the god Uhlanga be not merely a deified chief or hero, like the Thor and Woden of our own Teutonic ancestors." The same writer adds, "The Hottentot word Utiko, is now, however, used by all the frontier tribes to denote the Christian God."

NOTE C.- Page 19.

The Bushmen, or Bosjesmen, as the Dutch colonists call them, from their habits of wandering about in the wild and bushy parts of the country, are a race of Hottentots, but in general more diminutive, arising from the mode of life and the hardships to which they are exposed. They are to be found scattered among all the Bechuana tribes of which we have any knowledge. I believe that they were to the Hottentot tribes formerly, what the Saunys or poor Bechuanas now are to those who inhabit the towns. These collect the furs of wild animals, and sometimes wild fruit, for their respective chiefs; but preferring sweet liberty in the wilds of the interior to a species of vassalage in the neighbourhood of towns, they remove to comparative seclusion, though they still have their masters, principally nominal, to whom they can, under certain circumstances, appeal. These sons of the field sometimes receive additions to their numbers from those who have fled from the towns. The astonishing variety in the Bushman language is also essily accounted for from the same circumstances. I know of many thousands of this description of Saunys who are very little higher than the Bushmen in civilization, and who live in the same way, without either flocks or herds, from one generation to another. I believe the Bushmen in general are only predatory, and plunderers by the lex talionis of human nature.