acher was speaking. At the close, this Chief was found sitting on
the ground outside, his back to the door, his head bent forward and
buried in his arms. He was weeping. When spoken to, he raised his arm
with a movement of deprecation, and, in a voice full of pity and
indignation, said--"to think that there was no one even to give Him a
drink of water!" That poor savage had known what thirst is. This one
awakened chord of human sympathy with the human Christ was
communicative. Other hearts were touched, and from that time the
Missionary began to reap a rich harvest from his labours. In the midst
of the elaborate services of our fashionable London churches is there
often to be found so genuine a feeling as that which shook the soul of
this Chief, and broke down the barrier of coldness and hardness in his
fellow-countrymen which had before prevented the acceptance of the
message of Salvation and of the practical obligations of Christianity
among them? Men who are capable of rising to the knowledge and love of
divine truth cannot be supposed to be impervious to the influence of
_civilization_ properly understood.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: The financial resources of the country at that time
amounted to 12s. 6d.]

[Footnote 2: Quoted from Parliamentary Blue Book.]

[Footnote 3: Report made on the spot by Mr. Shepstone (not Sir
Theophilus Shepstone), Secretary for Native Affairs.]

[Footnote 4: The name of that official was held back from publication at
the time, as if his act were known by the Boers, it was believed it
might have cost the man his life.]

II.

THE CAUSES OF THE WAR DATE FAR BACK. THE FAULTS OF ENGLAND TO BE
SOUGHT IN THE PAST. A REVISED VERDICT NEEDED. DOWNING STREET
GOVERNMENT AND SUCCESSIVE COLONIAL GOVERNORS. M. MABILLE AND M.
DIETERLEN, FRENCH MISSIONARIES. EARLY HISTORY OF CAPE COLONY.
ABOLITION OF SLAVERY BY GREAT BRITAIN. COMPENSATION TO SLAVE
OWNERS. FIRST TREK OF THE BURGHERS.

There is nothing so fallacious or misleading in history as the popular
tendency to trace the causes of a great war to one source alone, or to
fix upon the most recent events leading up to it, as the principal or
even the sole cause of the outbreak of war. The occasion of an event may
not be, and often is not, the cause of it. The occasion of this war was
not its cause. In the present case it is extraordinary to note how
almost the whole of Europe appears to be carried away with t