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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: you. Succour the oppressed; deliver the captive. If thine enemy hunger,
feed him; if he is athirst give him drink."
A curious warmth and gladness stole over Peter Halket as he knelt; it was
as, when a little child, his mother folded him to her: he saw nothing more
about him but a soft bright light. Yet in it he heard a voice cry,
"Because thou hast loved mercy--and hated oppression--"
When Trooper Peter Halket raised himself, he saw the figure of the stranger
passing from him. He cried, "My Master, let me go with you." But the
figure did not turn. And, as it passed into the darkness, it seemed to
Peter Halket that the form grew larger and larger: and as it descended the
further side of the kopje it seemed that for one instant he still saw the
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