Moffat Mission Station Traditional Cache
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The cache is placed at one of the "sites" at the station. The intension of the cache is to explore and appreciate the whole station. Please spend some time to wonder around this wonderfull African jewel.
Robert Moffat; born at Ormiston (9 miles southeast of Edinburgh), Scotland, December 21, 1795; died at Leigh (25 miles southeast of London) August 9, 1883. From a boy he was religiously inclined, and after offering himself for mission work to the London Missionary Society he was accepted and sent to South Africa, 1816. He went first to Namaqua Land, where he was assisted by Afrikaner, a native chief converted by him. From there he went to Lattakoo in 1820, then on to Kuruman in 1825. From 1839 to 1843 he was in London lecturing for the Missionary Society, and translating the Psalms. He met Livingstone at this time, and secured his services for the Bechuana mission. In 1843 he resumed his work in Kuruman, and in 1857 finished his translation of the Bible and Pilgrim's Progress into Setswana. Their original printing press can still be seen at the Kuruman Moffat Mission. In 1870 he returned to England permanently. In 1872 he was honored with a doctorate in divinity from Edinburgh, and a testimonial of £5,000 from his friends.
Together with Robert Hamilton, Robert and Mary Moffat established the best-known Mission Station in Africa, often referred to as ‘the fountain of Christianity’. The mission station also became a base for famous explorers, including David Livingstone (1813-1873). In 1844 David Livingstone married the Moffat's daughter Mary.
At the Kuruman Moffat Mission the original church has been perfectly preserved and is in mint condition, as are other historic houses.
The so-called Moffat pulpit can be seen in the museum. A declared National Monument, it was probably made by Robert Hamilton, a co-operator of Moffat. The old ship's bell was the church bell, and was said to have been brought from Cape Town on the back of an ox. It announced the sermons preached by the missionaries Livingstone, Moffat and Waterboer.
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