ed of all this, the natives were immediately taught to
regard them as their oppressors, and were encouraged to
insubordination to their masters, and the ill-effects of this
policy on the part of the missionaries has reached further than
can be told. May I ask was this the tone that St. Paul adopted in
his mission work among the oppressed slaves of his day?... It is
not those who do _not_ know the Boers, like Dr. Stewart, but
those who know them best, like Dr. Andrew Murray, who are not
only enamoured of their simple lives, but who know also that with
all their disadvantages and their positive faults they are still
a people whose rule of life is the Bible, whose God is the God of
Israel, and who as a nation have never swerved from the covenant
with that God entered into by their fathers, the Huguenots of
France and the heroes of the Netherlands.

Upon this phase of the controversy there is no necessity to dwell at
present, beyond remarking that those who are at present most disposed to
take up what may be regarded as the missionary side should not forget
that they are preparing a rod for their own backs. The Aborigines
Protection Society has long had a quarrel with the Boers, but if our
Imperialists are going to adopt the platform of Exeter Hall they will
very soon find themselves in serious disagreement with Mr. Cecil Rhodes
and other Imperialist heroes of the hour. That the Dutch in South Africa
have treated the blacks as the English in other colonies have treated
the aborigines is probably true, despite all that Mr. Reitz can say on
their behalf. But, whereas in Tasmania and the Australian Colonies the
black fellows are exterminated by the advancing Briton, the immediate
result of the advent of the Dutch into the Transvaal has been to
increase the number of natives from 70,000 to 700,000, without including
those who were attracted by the gold mines. In dealing with native races
all white men have the pride of their colour and the arrogance of power.
The Boers, no doubt, have many sins lying at their door, but it does not
do for the pot to call the kettle black, and so far as South Africa is
concerned, the difference between the Dutch and British attitudes toward
the native races is more due to the influence of Exeter Hall and the
sentiment which it represents than to any practical difference between
English and Dutch Colonists as to the status of the colo