IV.

INTERVIEW WITH DR. JAMES STEWART, MODERATOR (1899) OF THE FREE
CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. LETTER OF MR. BELLOWS TO SENATOR HOAR, U.S.A.
THE REV. C. PHILLIPS. EXTRACTS FROM THE "CHRISTIAN AGE," AND FROM
M. ELISÉE RECLUS, GEOGRAPHER. RETROCESSION OF THE TRANSVAAL. MR.
GLADSTONE'S ACTION. ITS EFFECT ON THE TRANSVAAL LEADERS, AND ITS
CONSEQUENCES FOR THE NATIVE SUBJECTS OF GREAT BRITAIN.


The Rev. Dr. James Stewart, of Lovedale Mission Institute, South Africa,
who, in May, 1899, was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the
Scotch Free Church, imparted his views with regard to the Transvaal
question to a representative of the _New York Tribune_ on the occasion
of his visit to Washington in the autumn of 1899, to attend the
Pan-Presbyterian Council as a delegate from the Free Church of Scotland.

Dr. Stewart's title to speak on matters connected with the Transvaal
rests upon thirty years' residence in South Africa.

On the morning of his election as Moderator of the General Assembly the
_Scotsman_ coupled his name with that of Dr. Livingstone as the men to
whom the British Central Africa Protectorate was due.

The interview was published in the _Tribune_ of September 24th, 1899.

Dr. Stewart said:--