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The South-African crisis - pagina 3

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Il^TEODUCTIOI^.

Dr.

Abraham Kuyper,

and review

South

of

opinions cannot but

men

women

;,nd

a

journalist,

command

allairs,

is

a great

Dutchman whose

the respectful attention of tlioughtful

whatever

in this country to

Kuyper has won

Dr.

belong.

the author of the following inasterfal criticism

African

political party

they

may

distinction as a scholar, a theologian,

and a statesman.

He

was born

1837 and, after a

in

brilliant career as a student at the University of Leyden, where he

graduated D.D. in 1802 he became a famous preacher in Amsterdam. Jn 1880 he was appointed professor of Theology in the Free University

of that city

a position which he

been

Theology", has

still

holds. His "Encyclopa'dia of

translated into English

and

is

well

known

to

students of the science of religion on both sides the Atlantic. In 1898 the University of Princeton, U.S., conferred

upon him the honorary

degree of LL. D., and two years ago he was appointed to deliver the ''Stone Lectures".

He was welcomed by

the American people with remar-

kable enthusiasm. "The Dutch Gladstone" was the conferred upon journalist.

He

him is

in the

American

press. Dr.

title

Kuyper

is

appropriately

also a brilliant

President of the Dutch Press Association and in

his silver jubilee as editor of

"De Standaard", one

I8'.)7

of the ablest and

most intiuential daily papers in the Netherlands, was celebrated by

manner worthy of

his tine charac-

friends

and opponents

ter, his

great intellectual powers, and his far-reaching influence. It

however,

household of

a

as

a

alike in a

Statesman that he

words to Dutchmen

great party

in

ail

has

made

his

over the world.

the States General

and

is

name

He

is

is

familiar as

the leader

a muster of parlia-

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