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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: and he said, 'My friends, Naboth has a vineyard in this land; and in it
there is much gold; and Ahab has desired to have it that the wealth may be
his.'
"And he put the old book aside, and he took up another which was written
yesterday. And the men and women whispered one to another, even in the
church, 'Is not that the Blue Book Report of the Select Committee of the
Cape Parliament on the Jameson raid?'
"And the man said, 'Friends, the first story I have read you is one of the
oldest stories of the world: the story I am about to read you is one of
the newest. Truth is not more truth because it is three thousand years
old, nor is it less truth because it is of yesterday. All books which
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