tion of all the
sons of God throughout the earth.

Not only is the non-payment, but even delay in the payment of wages
condemned by the Law of Moses. Is it possible that Boer theologians, who
quote Scripture with so much readiness, have never read the following?

Lev. xix. _v_ 13.--"Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob
him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night
until the morning."

Deut. xxiv. _v_ 14.--"Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is
poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of the strangers that
are in thy land, within thy gates."

Verse 15.--"At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the
sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest
he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee."

Jer. xxii. _v_ 13.--"Woe unto him that buildeth his house by
unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's
service without wages, and giveth him not for his work."

Mal. iii. _v_ 5.--"And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will
be a swift witness against ... those that oppress the hireling in his
wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger
from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts."

The following is from the New Testament, but it might have come under
the notice of Boer theologians and Law makers:--

The epistle of St. James v. _v_ 4.--"Behold the hire of the labourers
who have reaped down your fields which is of you kept back by fraud,
crieth; and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the
ears of the Lord of Sabaoth."

Verse 3.--"Your gold and your silver is cankered, and the rust of them
shall be a witness against you."

Jer. xxxv. _v_ 17.--"Because ye have not proclaimed Liberty every man to
his neighbour, behold I proclaim Liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the
Sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine."

I am aware that there will be voices raised at once in application to
certain English people of the very commands here cited; and justly so,
so far as that application is made to individuals or groups of persons
who have transgressed not only Biblical Law but the Law of our Land in
their dealings with native races; and the warning conveyed to us in such
recriminations must not and, I believe, will not be unheeded.

The following occurs in a number of the "Ethical World," published early
in the present year:--"We