joy; but let them leave this land they have tortured and ruined. Let them
keep the money they have made here; we may be the poorer for it; but they
cannot then crush our freedom with it. Shall I ask my God Sunday by Sunday
to brood across the land, and bind all its children's hearts in a close-
knit fellowship;--yet, when I see its people betrayed, and their jawbone
broken by a stroke from the hand of gold; when I see freedom passing from
us, and the whole land being grasped by the golden claw, so that the
generation after us shall be born without freedom, to labour for the men
who have grasped all, shall I hold my peace? The Boer and the Englishman
who have been in this land, have not always loved mercy, nor have they
always sought after justice; but the little finger of the speculator and
monopolist who are devouring this land will be thicker on the backs of the
children of this land, black and white, than the loins of the Dutchmen and
Englishmen who have been.'

"And she said, 'I have heard it said that it was our duty to sacrifice
ourselves for the men and women living in the world at the same time as
ourselves; but I never before heard that we had to sacrifice ourselves for
people that are not born. What are they to you? You will be dust, and
lying in your grave, before that time comes. If you believe in God,' she
said, 'why cannot you leave it to Him to bring good out of all this evil?
Does He need YOU to be made a martyr of? or will the world be lost without
YOU?'

"He said, 'Wife, if my right hand be in a fire, shall I not pull it out?
Shall I say, 'God may bring good out of this evil,' and let it burn? That
Unknown that lies beyond us we know of no otherwise than through its
manifestation in our own hearts; it works no otherwise upon the sons of men
than through man. And shall I feel no bond binding me to the men to come,
and desire no good or beauty for them--I, who am what I am, and enjoy what