The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-24
PRESIDENT KnUGER's EDUCATION
His Preceptor was Rev. Daniel Lin
dley, ID. D., Presbyterian Missionary
to South Africa from Near Charlotte.

1t is a fact that is not generally
known that Paul Kruger. the venera-
BILE, brave and resourceful president of
the Transvaal republic, who is direct
ing the war with England in South At
RIGA, was educated and it mag well be
claimed the way paved and the
foundation laid for his remarkable ca
reer by a North Carolinian. Rev. DR..
Daniel Lindley, at the time a mission
airy in South Africa from the Rock
River Presbyterian church a Char-
lotte, n. c.. The Messenger is indebt-
ed to one of u young lady readers
for an interesting account of the edu-
cation of this wonderful mar and his
association with the North Carolina
missionary. 1t was clipped from a
leading New Tor daily, and is as fol-
lows:
Paul Kruger, of the Transvaal, the
most interesting old man in the wcr.i.
was educated by an American mission
airy. This was the Rev. Dr.. Daniel
Lindley. who went to South Africa IN
1885, as a missionary from the Rocky
River Presbyterian church.. near Char
lotte, N. c.
DR.. Lindley, previous to 1885, was a
Presbyterian minister, laboring Il
state of North Carolina, and when tn
time arrived at which 2 missionary was
needed to &c to South africa Dr.. ind
new field of labor. M. D. F. T'.XCn.
Of Charlotte, now an aged man, re-
members we'll the last sermon tt
Lindley preached before leaving
Rocky River church.
"On reaching the coast of .Af.ics -
Lindley vent TO Zululand and the sec
ton of country bordering on the Tu-
oa1o rixrar n N n rC,-- .l,=ET-- ~ .r,.
ated with the war in South Africa.
lone of the first ac~quaintances thu
DR.. Lindley made was that of a young
boy named Paul Kruger, the son of a
farmer i'm that section, inhabite
the Beers. DR.. Lindley became very
much interested in the lad, whose
young life was yet to be moulded and
formed, and gave much time to the
boys Improvement. In fact, Kruger
was converted one day under the
preaching of DR.. Lindley.
lon account of mis- great interest in
the boy, DR.. Lindley was very careful
and attentive to young Kruger's edu-
cation and was greatly taken UP in
the training of the youth for a life OF
usefulness and work. Today Paul l<ru-
ger, no doubt, owes much of his great.
ness and power as a statesman and
much of his wonderful reputation and
name for piety to the early effo-.s Of
this missionary.
After spending some time OF the
Dark Continent, DR.. Lindley returned
home for a visit to his friends in his
native state of North Carolina, and
during this visit a dinner in honor o..
Dr.. Lindley was given at Charlotte. At
this dinner DR.. E. Nye Hutchinson. ore
of the oldest living citizens of Char
lotte, was present n states that ne
we'll remembers hearing DR.. Lindley
speak a great e about his wonder
full experiences in South Africa, and
also much about Paul Kruger. who, il
would seem. a already made a deer
impression upon DR.. Lindley on ac-
count of his extraordinary talents and
promise Of coming greatness.
DR.. Lindley died a few years age.
having spent all his life since 1895 in
the missionary work in South Africa. .