The South-African crisis - pagina 78

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THE

selves charged,

by the grace of God, to go and bring

SOUTH-AFRICAN

CRISIS.

their Anglo-Christian civilisation to the Boers of South

And

Africa.

—

Boers

doctrine

nameh', Calvinism

been the hear

the

prevails

—

the doctrine that has

is

and the greatness of the

glor}'

Boers

the

among

that

the

They

Scots.

again pray in the fervent tone that

rendered the prayer of the Covenanter

powerful,

all

and sing the same psalms as were the war song of their ancestors in their struggle against absolutism.

But themselves, they prefer to stay at home. It is the Queen, with her nobility, that makes war, and the

people

the treasury to enable them to enrol

fill

mercenaries.

Down

whole people

—

in

name

the

there

fathers, sons,

not boast,

do

they

wounded

English generals,

when

never to

of their

rifles,

in

not

enemies

their

treat

God.

Africa,

it

is

a

— who,

and are capable of displaying a moral force

country,

them,

South

and grandsons

of Cod, pour out their blood for their

which holds the world they

in

like

the}^

place

suspense.

call

well,

good

The Boers do

their defeats victories,

they

care

Samaritans,

harangue these

for

the

and their

citizens,

urge

confidence in the infallibility

but always to put their trust onh' in

Churchill himself, an escaped prisoner, acknow-

ledged

that

an "unseen power" protected their com-

mandos.

Above of

the

all,

men

President,

consider well the brotherly faithfulness of

Mr.

the Free State, under their eminent Steyn.

The}^

could have stood apart.

The English quarrel with the Transvaal had nothing to

do

with them.

From

the point of view of the

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