Alexandria Advertiser And Commercial Intelligencer

Extract of a letter from the Rev. Dr. Harriss of Aldwinkle, (Great Britain.)
to the Rev. Dr. Rogers, of this city—
dated May 1st.

I am just going up to London to meet our Brethren in our annual Assembly for Missionary purposes,—and have the pleasure of informing you, that our work at the Cape of Good Hope is very prosperous and promising. The first fruits to Christianity among the Hottentots have written to us their grateful acknowledgments, for the truth as it is in Jesus preached unto them, and embraced in the love felt by them. A large Society at the Cape, of 229 members, vigorously pursue the same objects with us, and about 2000 heathen are under their tuition: From our affiliated society in Bristol, England, we have received the most cordial co-operation, and several German Brethren have been proposed to us, and accepted by us. Three of them are immediately to be added as a reinforcement to the Cape mission. Among ourselves, the work continues to spread greatly: the sheet anchor of hope for our country. If the Lord meant to destroy us, he would not have endued us such and such things. I look more to the gospel for our deliverance and preservation from the devouring scourge, than to any of our victories in the Baltic, Egypt, or elsewhere.