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Ch. 15: The Mining Towns

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106 THE DIAMOND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA
the succession since that year has been unbroken. The Metho­dists erected their first church at the West End, but as the town moved eastward, a new church, Trinity, was built to meet
the call from that quarter. The original Trinity Church was blown down by one of the fierce gales sweeping over the Fields, but a second Trinity has now taken its place. There are now in Kimberley three Wesleyan churches for whites, two for natives, and one for other people of color, and a missionary
is in daily attend­ance at the com­pounds. It is esti­mated that there are probably not less than three thousand persons under the charge ofthese seven min­isters. At a very early date in the history of the Fields the foundation stone of the Hebrew Synagogue was laid on the Dutoitspan Road, occupying a site donated by the London and South Africa Exploration Com­pany.
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