The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-09
KRUGER AS AN EXPORTER
AMERIC1N REPORT OF ONE OF HIS
 H1RANGUES
Showing Intimate Acquaintance With
 Divine Affairs,

MT. "Raynal de Font" the author oi
 an American book on South Africa. "Ir
 a Land of Smoke" sends us from Colo
 rado Beach, Cal, his notes of an inter-
 esting and characteristic speech which
 he heard President Kruger deliver al
 Paadekraal form on Dingaan's Day
 Four thousand burghers, he says, were
 present, many of them with their wives
 and children, and among them was a
 fair sprinkling of we'll dressed Uit-
 flanders from Johannesburg and the
 mines, who had come out to see the
 Boers celebrate their National festival.
 Prayer had been offered up, and cer-
 tainly no Uitlander showed want of
 reverence, and that historic psalm be-
 ginning, "The Lord shall equip us for
 the battle" which the gallant 300 up-
 raised on the banks of Blood River in
 the face of Dingaan's thousands fifty
 two years before that day, had been
 sung by the burghers as noise If
 many waters, and then the old man
 lifted his hand for silence and address
 ed them:
 "All ye multitude," and his strong
 voice rang out with the sonorous gut
 tural patois, ''listen with full attention
 that you may take hold of what I say
 God is in our midst l shall first ad
 dress the true burghers who are to
 praise God for His almighty deeds fla
 voring our entire people in the past
 days and now also. Unbelievers soy
 God does not do signs and wonders as
 in the days of the Old Covenant, but
 rh o1,y h tctn
 that the dear Lord does everything to
 give good time to those that are the
 people of the Lord; even as it is said in
 Psalm XIV. Yes, for you also, mur-
 derers, thieves, and even strangers. He works in His own good time, for ye also are of Gods image Thus I name you
 all His people," He paused to allow
 this charitable inclusion to sink into the hearts of the frivolous strangers" and then qualified the concession by word of caution to his true burghers'
 ''But for us burghers, it is for Us to pay our vows to the Lord, and therefore at this festival all human pride must be excluded. Are we not assembled to humble ourselves before God? It is like this. The Gracious One has builded splendid house, but the parlor must not lord 1t over the kitchen because of its superiority, but both must acknowl- edge the Master Builders hand. No, 1t is not for us to boast of our deeds, but in the result of our heroism recog nize the fingers of the Almighty and command you, brothers and sisters, not to let this day of remembrance lapse into a worldly play time. As for you" he went on, raising his voice, strangers and Uitlanders, though some of you are murderers and thieves, and scoff st holy religion, hear me! Yea, rather than hear what God says in His word about the free port of refuge open even for you. Hasten then to escape the earthly hangman by accepting that con from the Executioner of Souls. Let us all sing the Eighty-ninth Psalm." When several verses of this had been put through with spirit and unction ',y the burgher crowd, nearly all of them seemingly familiar with both words anl tune without any reference to hymn books, he continued: Friends and burghers: I shall now demonstrate Gods wisdom, power and tenderheart- edness, as manifested in your history from the Great Migration in 1885 into this day here. I will not tell all we came out for except these two req sons-we loved independence and had | sore troubles.
 "Countryman, I was but ten years of | age when I with my father I crossed r the boundary of the Old Colony to enter a strange land. That was in 1885, so that what speak from this place is tot | what you read in books, but that of | which myself was living part. Now | isten to this, and see Gods hand. I'm f onze volk (we people, passed put of the British territories we estao- ished an organized Government and resolved that no wrongdoing should go Inpunished. Now other nations when let loose grow lawless, but 1pon ls God laid restraining hand. The first voor-trekkers instituted a law against slavery in any form, and sought ,eace wherever they went Tn the in- labited Free State they took nothing y force, but hired and bought living- ands.' But the most of us went tito he 'desolated lands of the north and ast; and there, while lying all innocent nd unsuspecting the murderer Mos,i- .atse poured thousands of savages on he wagons, the men, and our women, Yes, truly, they even carried away our hildren to their kraals. But those who were left feared not, because they he sod's hand and he led them. Thirty ight in all we were. We formed our aager at the hill since called The Hill f the Fight and there fearful con- jet took place. Mosilikatse was driven ] ack by men who held on the finger of , Iod With other bands of voortrekkers { ,e then crossed Vaal River, and pur- ( ued that murderer to Marico, where f ,e beat him some more: and he fled , Then Potchefstrom was col , nized. And right here all ye who hear 1 le. listen! I want to say that the ( people have been slandered by z le story that we took the country from i efenseless- natives. That is a lie! f "When Potgieter's expedition crossed 2 re vaal he found the land swept naked | v the man-slaughtering hands of r -osilikatse. CMosilikatse' may be f anslated as He whose trail is blood t nd smoke,) While in the Free State Q lat now is there were left by his rav- a ses only a few Makateese hiding in a .yes of the mountains. What few h inds-natives' remained were slaves to r osilikatse, that murderer whom we lt lal1y broke to pieces at Mosilikatsnek, ''