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PREFATORY NOTE
The Sermon, of which this is a Second Edition,
with translation, was originally preached in
Crown Court Church, London, on the day set
apart in England for Intercession on behalf of
Her Majesty's Forces in South Africa. It was
afterwards preached in Kilmartin Parish Church,
the Sunday after the funeral of Queen Victoria.
The author was in East London, South Africa,
on 31st May 1 902, when peace was declared.
He witnessed the departure home of Lord
Kitchener in a troopship immediately afterwards ;
and at the same time returned with another
contingent of Volunteers on their way home, in
Union Castle M.S. Walmer Castle, from Cape
Town. Amongst these were a number of young
Gaelic - speaking Highlanders, who had been
attached to Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener
all the time they were in South Africa, with
whom he conducted daily a Gaelic Service on
board all the way home, and to each of whom he
afterwards presented a copy of the Sermon.

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Reminiscence of the war in South Africa
DescriptionParallel English translation and Gaelic text. Gaelic part of text entitled: Searmon cuimhne mu 'n chogadh ann an Africa.
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