The South-African crisis - pagina 29

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

CRICIS.

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,

incest.

But on the other hand they have treated their

slaves

as

good

they have habituated them

children;

to w^ork; have softened their manners; and in South Africa you will hnd no man more skilful in dealing

with the natives than a Boer pratriarch.

Neither in

the Free State nor in the Transvaal has the presence of the natives on the Boer farms

raised the shghtest

difhculty,

and the most conclusive proof of the excellent

relations

existing

servants

is

found

country there bance

has

between the Boers and their black in

the

now when

even

that throughout

fact

the

been no sign of the least distur-

crossed the frontier, and

all

the male population has

women and

children are left

with the Kaffirs on widely scattered and isolated farms.

The Boers regard with ill-favour, not Missions, but English Missions of which they have preserved too painful memories. A Swiss missionary reports from the Transvaal: "The Boers themselves ask for Evangelists for the natives established amongst them i)." At Pretoria the Kaffirs have two Ohurches with

own pastors'. And a German missionary relates how General Joubert, returning from his expedition their

against station

the

1)

cruel

chief

and expressed

whom

God

Mpefo,

visited

the

his pleasure at finding

Christians

Kaffirs

same I

the

his

and ovv^n

worshippers people

mission

amongst of

the

worshipped.

^)

ma}^ add that the Boers have always looked in the huUetln de

la

mission romande.

May

1899, p. 371.

The reformed church p. 34G. contained already in 1890 twenty eight missionaries, among.st the natives See Afiikaunder StualsdhnauKk, 1892, p. 71. 2)

Beiiiner Missionsberichte,

Oct.

1899,

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