oney.

"'And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me, that I should give the
inheritance of my father unto thee.

"'And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word
which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken unto him; for he had said, I will
not give thee the inheritance of my fathers.'

"The man read the whole story until it was ended. Then he closed the
book, and he said, 'My friends, Naboth has a vineyard in this land;
and in it there is much gold; and Ahab has desired to have it that the
wealth may be his.'

"And he put the old book aside, and he took up another which was written
yesterday. And the men and women whispered one to another, even in the
church, 'Is not that the Blue Book Report of the Select Committee of the
Cape Parliament on the Jameson raid?'

"And the man said, 'Friends, the first story I have read you is one of
the oldest stories of the world: the story I am about to read you is
one of the newest. Truth is not more truth because it is three thousand
years old, nor is it less truth because it is of yesterday. All books
which throw light on truth are God's books, therefore I shall read to
you from the pages before me. Shall the story of Ahab king of Samaria
profit us when we know not the story of the Ahabs of our day; and the
Naboths of our land be stoned while we sit at east?' And he read to them
portions of that book. And certain rich men and women rose up and went
out even while he spoke, and his wife also went out.

"And when the service was ended and the man returned to his home, his
wife came to him weeping; and she said, 'Did you see how some of the
most wealthy and important people got up and went out this morning? Why
did you preach such a sermon, when we were just going to have the new
wing added to our house, and you thought they were going to raise your
salary? You have not a single Boer in your congregation! Why need you
say the Chartered Company raid on Johannesburg was wrong?'

"He said, 'My wife, if I believe that certain men whom we have raised on
high, and to whom we have given power, have done a cowardly wrong, shall
I not say it?'

"And she said, 'Yes, and only a little while ago, when Rhodes was
licking the dust off the Boers' feet that he might keep them from
suspecting while he got ready this affair, then you attacked both Rhodes
and the Bond (The Afrikander Bond, the organised Dutch political party,
through whom Mr. Rhodes worked, and by whom he wa