New-York tribune., 1900-03-04
THE SCHREINERS DIVIDED.
OLIVES SISTER. MRS. ELLIS. DENoUNCEs
raF BOERs AND UPHOLDs THE WAR.

7rom The St Jamess Budget.
FROM r. is w well known that the members of the
sehremj9erf in fbe y h3ag p0 in south out Africa Mr. @ w r
schreiner. the Cape Premier and his more famous
ofber and their brother. Theodore strong sup
HytrTs OF the British side. Now another member
t5e family intervenes from third standpoint,
eeeng in the war Gods vengeance on the Beers
The inpassIoned appeals made by Olive sehreiner
on behalf OF the Beers have called forth an equally
impassoned appeal from mat iaoy sister Mrs
Ellis This appeal appears in the current number
- THE Methodist Times" We give some eN-
:sFTerv bullet sent on its death mission may be
1tcs hut equally the Colonial homes of Her
Majesty's loyal subjects There surely never was
eIeG more rcnine he hearts and souls of thom
saTas VINO. like the writer. are facing death TO
Beloved ones or, what is even more bitter than
which may extend into and darken all the future
O IN The name of the Lord Jesus and for His dear
sake | appeal 10 the Christian people of England
form the question OF the war IN when Great
britain is now engaged. If ever there was war
truth ard right, for the putting down OF oppression
and wrong FOR he deliverance OF a people power,
less 70 deliver themselves. whose wrongs have cried
up TO Heaven until the Lord has come down 10 de-
iiLar them. this that
II is not the grievances of the Outanders though
they have very real. ana have called for jus
sffer OF in6iSnties and wrongs. though these have
been numerous under recent Transvaal administra-
r-on- II is the insult to Englands power and
T7Teetiee shown by the refusal to concede her mod
rp
Sonfsinod in the TransyaaI War ultima tum: it is
national heart which call upon Us as Christians to
bring the united force Of Gods people, by the power
II Believing prayer. 10 bear upon this war Ques-
Ee,e I'd the British nation to unite TO wage this
war: hut behind that nation, and behind these
cal.zcs. is the moving power of the Omnpotent.
5sI@ events en- Wien have led up to this war aTe the
CHEF cause why the lifebood Of the British Empire
are dying African sol! to-day TO PM end TO
no. hing bat this sacrifice of life could right. For
TransT@aI RePuhlc and their descehdants have
crushed naltreated and. as far as they had the
them as fellow human beings the colored peoples
will suffer almost equally with the Republicans be-
fore this IS over free from blood outlines in
This matter. thoueh. under the British flag. their
legislative wrongs. in the direction of native OPP
preston. have perforoe been far less henous than
their blindness and the Pharaohlike hardness Of
Il their leaders. have thrown down the gaunt
let OF war before Great Britain
nee5 ITanSyaa! rGlG a Geaseless c0mmittai @ AL 81
perpetrated upon the helpless natives both within within
# has seemed till now there was no possible de-
Lyerance. To justice loving souls who have known
Of these wrongs it has been like some horrible
nightmare that in the nineteenth century, within
The limits Of country over part Of which there
waves the British flag. political and social oppres-
sion by one race over another was being so grossly
pTactIsed. to know that on every side iRdlvduai
victims, and that. not by Arab slave drivers or
and highly religious people who, with the Bible in
their hands and loud professions Of faith and pray
ers. practising barharities in peace well
as war which put TO shame the records of what the
savages OF this land have inflicted even in
time upon white OH il has been horrible
beyond words-horribei
''Ani now now that our God has arisen now
that the fearful wrongs of past generations to
be righted; that the Lord of Hosts has sent
forth as His avenging instruments our British army
10 right the wrongs that have cried up before Him
for hundred years. 10 fight the battles not
Of British against Boer, not of the Outlander
against Transyaal oppression. as il appears to
a IA
behalf OF the myriad lives. of the numberless
nations with which the interior of Africa is
ing, and which only by the success of British
arms gain through all the future years oppor-
tunities TO develop God would have them de-
ve!op and grow into free. enlightened peoples to
His glory, and the blessing of the human race, and
the heart satisfaction Of Him who died that they
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