{"title":"The Fort!","authors":"England Chapel, Sally, Sampson","doi":"10.1515/9781503616950-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503616950-011","url":null,"abstract":"When one examines the history of religious ministry at Fort England. it is quite surprising to find that the chapel as sueh was not built until 1861. This does not imply that Christianity was moribund there before that date. On the contrary. Fort England (as it is now called) was the site of the very first public worship ever conducted in Grahamstown, as early as 1820. Thus far, the mission had been fruitful among the White troops. On Christmas Day 1820, Shaw preached in the Lucas home to about 20 people in English, and immediately afterwards, at their own request, to the same number of Hottentots in their own tongue (an early form of Afrikaans). One of the men prayed aloud after he had finished, and cried earnestly, \"Oh Lord, send a teacher for ys poor heathen!\", meaning one who would live among them and give them regular in~truction. This cry went strai.ght to Shaw's heart, and he soon found that, adding together the Cape Corps and local domestic servants, there were close on one thousand Hottentots in Grahamstown. Many of them had spent some tin:te on a mission\"station, but, lacking any spiritual guidance, had sunk very low in \"drunkenness, lewdness, and many other deadly sins.\"3 In 1823, Shaw wrote to his superiors in England, urging the need for \"a school-room and chapel for the Hottentots of Grahamstown, to be erected near the Barracks. A great and good work might be done among them, but we cannot expect much without we have such a place.\" 500 rixdollars had already been subscrib~d, mostly by the men themselves, and a grant of £50 was now requested.. By that time, the first Methodist chapel was already flourishing in the centre of the town. It had opened in November 1822, with a united congregation of Europeans and Africans sitting together, plus \"several members of our Hottentot society.\" There was also a Sundayschool with about 60 pupils, in which the classes were divided according to language.5 The fact that the East Barracks appeal was made after this dual opening suggeststhat, for some reason or other, the men of the Corps were unable to join their fellows in public worship, so that corresponding arrangements had to be made for them on the site. The response to this appeal is not known. Presumably, the successful outcome would have been for the gar-, rison to get their own place of worship at this early date. But Dr William Parrott, surgeon to the Corps, writing an account of the Barracks in March 1827, mentioned that they contained what he called \"a schoolroom and church.\" The cavalry square comprised seventeen rooms of varying sizes, \"appropriated to the accommodation of the staff and the troop sergeants who have families. Two are occupied as general barrack rooms, one as a schoolroom and church, two as orderly rooms,\"6 and so on. It is quite clear that this was not an imposin~ consecrated In those days it was known as the East Barracks, standing as it did on a pleasant ridge to the south-east, about three kilometres from the heart o","PeriodicalId":270383,"journal":{"name":"The Legend of Freud","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122377075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Speculation: The Way to Utter Difference","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781503616950-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503616950-012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":270383,"journal":{"name":"The Legend of Freud","volume":"272 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115686071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sideshow, or: Remarks on a Canny Moment","authors":"Samuel Weber","doi":"10.2307/2907669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2907669","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":270383,"journal":{"name":"The Legend of Freud","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1973-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116019389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}