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DUTCH SYMPATHY WITH THE BOERS.At a reception given to the Transvaal delegates recently. by the Patrimomum, an association of Dutch Christian Socialist ‘‘ working men,” Dr. Kuyper, the president, said: “You are now in the midst of a people which never cried ‘Victory* so joyfully as it did when you triumphed over the English. Our first successes left us indifferent; we really exulted only when hased theHolland^ are a very enervated and insignificant race. We live only on historical souvenirs. We ar« like an aristocrat delighting in the perusal of his family parchments, and seated before empty dishes, with his nerves unstrung and his head heavy. Our history, our only wealth, lies with you, in you alone, in whom we see our .past revive. You recall to us the sea-wanderers of former times, and your exploits alone are able to make our hearts beat. You are Calvinists, as are we ; but we have dissensions, even among Calvinists, and your arrival makes us forget them. We may be annexed by Germany, or the Liberals, may render life unendurable to us. In either case we shall emigrate in a body to the Transvaal. Let the Holland of other time* then flourish again, in Southern Africa. Let the Englishman be chased from those countries, and a kingdom of Christ be established there, called, above all things, to bring to the descendants of Ham the blessings of the Lord, in the name of the King, Jems Christ. Amen.” Dr. Kuyper then presented a flag, embroidered with the arms of the Transvaal, to General Sniit, who had to swear that this flag should never fall into the hands of the English. President Kruger observed that it was the Lord who had fought against the English at the Spitzkop and elsewhere.Dutch of
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London Mid Surrey Times Kingston Express and Richmond Herald
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Mar 22, 1884
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