A noble army; a short study book for juniors . village of huts, shaded by mimosa trees, thelair of Afrikaner, the outlaw. An hour of suspensefollowed before the chieftain came forth to greet hisguest and direct the women to build him a house ofsticks and straw. Quickly the circle was drawn,the poles pounded into the ground, straw matsstretched over them and fastened down, and in thespace of a few minutes the dwelling was that flimsy native hut Robert Moffat spent sometroubled days, for at first Jager Afrikaner, his brotherTitus, and all the tribe were suspicious and unfriendlytowar
A noble army; a short study book for juniors . village of huts, shaded by mimosa trees, thelair of Afrikaner, the outlaw. An hour of suspensefollowed before the chieftain came forth to greet hisguest and direct the women to build him a house ofsticks and straw. Quickly the circle was drawn,the poles pounded into the ground, straw matsstretched over them and fastened down, and in thespace of a few minutes the dwelling was that flimsy native hut Robert Moffat spent sometroubled days, for at first Jager Afrikaner, his brotherTitus, and all the tribe were suspicious and unfriendlytoward the newcomer. But the newcomer promptlyset to work to prove his right to remain among began to teach the children three or four hours aday and to hold religious services night and hundred children flocked to his school, clad intheir dirty karosses of sheepskin, and to the dailyservices came the chief himself with unfailing regu-larity. What possessed this heathen chieftain, thebrave of a hundred battles? Had something be-. SCHOOL GIRLS IN SOUTH AFRICANewly Arrived from their Native Kraals The Smoke of a Thousand Villages 17 witched him? Instead of calling his warriors tofight or plunder the enemys cattlefold, he sat in theshadow of a great rock, reading, reading, and it wasalways the same little thumb-marked book that heread, a Dutch New Testament. At night he satupon a stone outside the white mans hut talkingoften until break of day about the great questionsof the meaning of life, questions which the little bookhad roused. Never was man more completelychanged. Instead of murder and pillage, he carriedsympathy and aid to every hut where need prevailed;instead of inciting the tribes to fight, he begged themto make terms of peace; and once, upon allusion tohis former life, he broke down and cried like a was the Christian Gospel which had entered thelife of the savage African and made him into a peace-ful, reasonable man, the devoted friend of the Eng-
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