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tomed to it is a sort of aspiration with them but at the same time they don t quite know what it is. Then civilisation comes in. The natives, it has been discovered, are very keen about learning to read and write. A good many of the younger boys are pupils at our training schools in Isandhlwana, where there are about forty boys being taught with a view to their becoming teachers, possibly clergymen."
" Then is the idea to build up a native church in Zululand in the future ? "
" Ah ! that would take a long time. However, I believe most firmly that the conversion of the people if they are to be won over for Christ will come largely through their own native teachers. We do use such teachers now under the name of native catechists. There are also two native priests. One of the great difficulties of the Church in the future, I believe, will be found in the distinction drawn between the white and black people. Let me make my meaning clear. I don t think we shall ever get the white people to worship with the black at any rate, the chances of such an event are very remote. Then I don t think God ever intended the black and white races to inter-marry, and, that being so, there can never be social equality. It is best so. In cases where white men have married black women, the men have been despised and looked down upon by both white and black
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