Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1900 — ALL CALLED TO ARMS. [ARTICLE]

ALL CALLED TO ARMS.

Kruger Asks Every Able-Bodied Burgher to March to the Front. President Kruger has issued a proclamation calling upon burghers to take up arms and march to the front. He has also sent out a circular to the Boer generals, commandants, and burghers urging them to trust in the Lord and to show energy in the war against the British. He says: “Through the blessing of the Lord our great cause has been carried to such a point that with energy we may expect a successful issue. Read Psalm xxxiii. The enemy have fixed their faith on Psalm Ixxxiii. Do not forget the enemy. Create devastation wherever you go in Cape Colony. They seize, sell, or destroy the goods of the Africanders. In the Free State they, lay waste farms.” President Kruger likens the destructiveness of the British to an attack of the devil on Christ's church, and says:“1 am searching the entire Bible and can-find no other way possible than that adopted by us.. We must continue to fight iu the name of the Lord.” The Volksstem makes a suggestion that the entire gold-mining industry of the Transvaal should be destroyed beyond the possibility of remedy the instant the British cross-the border. Psalm 33 is the well-known hymn of praise to the Lord for his goodness, beginning: "Rejoice* in the Lord, O ye righteous.” Psalm 83 is the song of Asaph, in which occurs the verse: “They have said, 'Come and let us cut them off from being a nation.’