The South-African crisis - pagina 79

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

CRISIS.

world, their non-intervention could have been justified.

But no; they declined to take up that position. They determined, as good Christians, to go to the aid of their threatened brethren, and the whole of the male population quitted their country to oppose the English invasion. I

my

example a

of

keeper?"

brother's

own and

brethren, their

But they

of

faithfulness,

and place in the right

balance,

an unsurpassable

Take the

scale the completely

Christian heroism of those Boers, and in the

the

intrigues

of

the

capitalism,

left scale

bragging

and the aberration of those

imperialists,

Unique

newspaper remarked,

maintenance of justice!

the

for

sacrifice,

risked, for their

their children's lives.

in our century, as a Swiss

disinterested

''Am

Cain w^ould have asked:

the

of

Christian

On which side will the balance incline? conclusion, to know that these English christians

methodists.

And, in are

and serious people, and that

sincere

English people would curse if

bandage

the

all

this noble

these projects of iniquit}-

froui their eyes, but to see

fell

how

the Jingoes draw the bandage tighter and tighter is

it

not a

distressing

a frightful tragedy? witness

spectators,

A

reality

which

is

—

turning into

tragedy which we, disinterested

with profound grief and profound

humiliation.

XII.

to

What

will be the chhioirment of this tragedy?

Here

I

the

scrupulously

issue

of the

refrain

from

all

conjecture as

militar}' operations in progress.

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