At Our Public Religious Services In The Kotla, The Makololo Women Always
Behaved With Decorum From The First, Except At
The conclusion of the prayer.
When all knelt down, many of those who had children, in following
the example of
The rest, bent over their little ones; the children,
in terror of being crushed to death, set up a simultaneous yell,
which so tickled the whole assembly there was often a subdued titter,
to be turned into a hearty laugh as soon as they heard Amen.
This was not so difficult to overcome in them as similar peccadilloes were
in the case of the women farther south. Long after we had settled at Mabotsa,
when preaching on the most solemn subjects, a woman might be observed
to look round, and, seeing a neighbor seated on her dress,
give her a hunch with the elbow to make her move off; the other would
return it with interest, and perhaps the remark, "Take the nasty thing away,
will you?" Then three or four would begin to hustle the first offenders,
and the men to swear at them all, by way of enforcing silence.
Great numbers of little trifling things like these occur, and would not be
worth the mention but that one can not form a correct idea of missionary work
except by examination of the minutiae. At the risk of appearing frivolous
to some, I shall continue to descend to mere trifles.
The numbers who attended at the summons of the herald, who acted as beadle,
were often from five to seven hundred.
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