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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: for us to learn from. The present, the present only, is ours to work in,
and the future ours to create. Is all the gold of Johannesburg or are all
the diamonds in Kimberley worth, that one Christian man should fall by the
hand of his fellows--aye, or one heathen brother?'
"And she answered, 'Oh, that is all very well. If you were a really
eloquent preacher, and could draw hundreds of men about you, and in time
form a great party with you at its head, I shouldn't mind what you said.
But you, with your little figure and your little voice, who will ever
follow you? You will be left all alone; that is all the good that will
ever come to you through it.'
"And he said, 'Oh my wife, have I not waited and watched and hoped that
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