ia to further our cause in the field.
But how can this be done? I have no adequate words at my
command, and I feel that the work of these women is above all
expression of appreciation."

"When I look back on those days, there floats across my mind not
only the names, but also the personality of each of these worthy
women, and I remember to the minutest detail their
self-sacrifice and the zeal with which they stood by us during
our visits to Pretoria, while exposed to the danger of
themselves being plunged into the greatest difficulties. But for
this they had no thought, no care, as long as the sacred cause
could be advanced. I feel, however, that it would be out of
place to mention the names of a few where so _many_ risked their
all, willingly offering even the sacrifice of their lives, if
necessary, to further the interests of our cause."

"How fervently I should have wished to see their great work
crowned with a well-deserved reward!"

"He who rules the destinies of nations decreed it otherwise,
however, and we must bow in resignation to His will, but,
faithful women and girls of South Africa, rest assured that your
noble work and self-sacrifice have not been in vain. For myself
I find in that which was performed by you this great abiding
comfort, that so long as South Africa possesses women and girls
of your stamp, so long can we go forward to meet the future
hopefully and cheerfully; so long as the spirit, nourished by
you, still lives and thrives in our midst, so long may we pursue
our way fearlessly."

"The struggle is over, brought to an end more than a year ago,
and some of us have already learnt to adapt ourselves to our
altered circumstances. We have been taught by those whose
position, as leaders of the people, gives them the fullest right
thereto, how to conduct ourselves, and we require no further
encouragement to follow that advice."

"But we feel that we cannot lay sufficient emphasis on the
injunction to be true to one another as a nation, to be true to
our traditions of the past, true to the lessons we have learnt
in the recent conflict."

"We have seen to what a pass one can be brought by infidelity."

"Let us in future live in such a way that nothing may be lost of
the honour which is our inheritance from the battle-fields of
South Af