WOMEN’S MISSION WORK IN SOUTH AFRICA.
MANY of the missionary societies in South Africa have seminaries and schools for training teachers, and nine female seminaries on the Mt. Holyoke plan have been established by American women, to train the girls and fit them for useful service. Some of these seminaries are said to be self-supporting. Prominent among these is the Huguenot Seminary, founded at Wellington, Cape Colony, over twenty years ago, by two American women, graduates of Mt. Holyoke. While this institution has been preëminently for the descendants of colonists, its influence has been felt12in the regions beyond among the native women. More than a thousand young girls have been educated, and some have gone out as teachers and some as missionaries to the natives. Its missionary society, affiliated with twenty-five local societies, supports eight women who have been sent forth as far as Lake Nyassa. Six are in the diamond fields of Kimberley. This institution is called the “Light of the Cape.” Ten other institutions have developed from this.—Gospel in All Lands.