er, contained within it a kernel of truth capable of a great
development. "Ye have heard it said of old times," He reiterated, "_but
I say unto you_"--and then He set forth the higher, the eternally true
principles of action.

Yet if the Transvaal teachers and their disciples had read impartially
(though even exclusively) the Old Testament Scriptures, they could not
have failed to see how grossly they were themselves offending against
the divine commands in some vital matters. I cite, as an example, the
following commands, given by Moses to the people, not once only, but
repeatedly. Had these commands been regarded with as keen an
appreciation as some others whose teaching seems to have an opposite
tendency, it is impossible that the natives should have been treated as
they have been by Boer Law, or that Slavery or Serfdom should have
existed among them for so many generations. The following are some of
the often-repeated commands and warnings:

Ex. xii. _v_ 19.--"One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto
the stranger that sojourneth among you."

Num. ix. _v_ 14.--"If a stranger shall sojourn among you, ... ye shall
have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in
the land."

Num. xv. _v_ 15.--"One ordinance shall be both for you of the
congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an
ordinance for ever in your generation: as ye are so shall the stranger
be before the Lord."

Verse 16.--"One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the
stranger that sojourneth with you."

Lev. xix. _v_ 33.--"And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye
shall not vex him."

Verse 34.--"But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you
as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were
strangers in the land of Egypt."

Verse 35.--"Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in mete-yard, in
weight, or in measure."

Although the natives of the Transvaal were the original possessors of
the country, they have been reckoned by the Boers as strangers and
foreigners among them. They have treated them as the ancient Jews
treated all Gentiles as for ever excluded from the Commonwealth of
Israel,--until in the "fulness of time" they were forced by a great
shock and terrible judgments--to acknowledge, with astonishment, that
"God had also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life," and that
they also had heard the news of the glorious emancipa