Howard PIM Collection

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The Howard Pim Library comprises of an Africana collection that was named after John Howard Pim (1863-1934). Mr Pim was a member of the governing council of the University of College of Fort Hare in the years 1933 and 1934 to which he bequeathed part of his personal library.

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The Christian Express
(University of Fort Hare, 1901) The Christian Express
To-day begins a new year and a new century. That which decayeth and waxeth old has vanished away. What has been called the Wonderful Century has now passed into the realm of history, although its influence is still with us of to-day. To characterise the years that are now closed is no easy task. So many points of view present themselves that it is necessary to choose which best suits our purpose.
The Christian Express
(University of Fort Hare, 1899) The Christian Express
It is now Twenty-Eight years since the Christian Express was first issued, though not exactly in its present form. It began as a small quarto in 1870 and was printed partly in English and partly in Kaffir and had a considerable circulation for a mission paper both among Europeans and Native Five years later, the Christian Express appeared in its present form and the Kaffir portion was issued as Isigidimi Sama Xhosa, printed entirely in Kaffir and of a similar size and form.
The Christian Express
(University of Fort Hare, 1895) The Christian Express
To our native friends and renders we offer a few words of greeting and good wishes for the year which is now beginning. The year that has just ended is one which has caused them a good deal of anxiety and perturbation of feeling. Certain rights and privileges, or individual liberties, in the possession of which they believed themselves to be perfectly secure, have been somewhat suddenly ignored or taken from them.
The Christian Express
(University of Fort Hare, 1897) The Christian Express
We had not intended referring to this matter in our present issue. While a controversy is being carried on which involves official correspondence it is undesirable to make any public statement till the case is closed. But several reasons render a reference now necessary. The controversy has been taken up by other papers without hint or suggestion from us. By some the matter has been fairly stated by others it has been as unfairly misstated. Meantime, conclusions will be come to and the case misjudged before any complete statement can be made. Still further, we cannot stand by and look on, while some of our only friends, who have taken up our case, receive blows only for their trouble.
The Christian Express
(University of Fort Hare, 1880) The Christian Express
No one who cares for peace and quietness will readily enter into a controversy on a fiercely debated public question. And yet it is out of the undesirable din and turmoil of such debate, that every advance in the history of freedom, whether of thought or religion has always emerged. But there are times when peace and quiet however desirable are not attainable; and when in comparison with speech, silence merits anything but the praise bestowed upon it by a celebrated philosopher still living. It is not always 'golden', for a wiser than Carlyle has said, there is a time to speak, as well as a time to keep silence. There is also a time, we may remind some of our contemporaries, to keep old opinions, and a time to cast them away.
The Christian Express
(University of Fort Hare, 1908) The Christian Express
We deal elsewhere with the recent unexpected turn of affairs in Natal. As we stated in our last issue, the news from that colony during the greater part of November was mor reassuring than it had been for a long time. Neither the neighbouring Colonies, nor the great majority of the people in Natal itself were in any way prepared for the sudden mobilization of the troops and the expedition on a war footing into Zululand which startled South Africa at the close of the month. The Natal Government having satisfied itself that a second rebellion was being enkindled, had apparently determined by a coup de main to force the hands of the ringleaders
The Christian Express
(University of Fort Hare, 1910) The Christian Express
In our August issue we ventured to express the opinion that any appointment to the Governor-General ship of South Africa other than that Lord Selborne would be received with grave apprehension by South Africa generally. The position of the new Governor-General was plainly to be of some difficulty, and Lord Selborne is trusted by all sections of the people in a way no newcomer could expect, for some time at least, to be trusted. this feeling of uneasiness was indeed manifested in various quarters when names began to be mentioned in connection with the post of Governor-General, and an organised movement was on foot to petition the Home Government in favour of Lord Selborne.
The Christian Express
(University of Fort Hare, 1906) The Christian Express
It is with the profoundest sorrow that we have to record the death of our revered principal Dr. Stewart. On the evening of Thursday, 21 December h entered into his long rest leaving behind him to the Church Universal the priceless heritage of a noble memory and a great name. "At evening time, it shall be light" was ever a favourite thought with Dr. Stewart and so as the evening shadows were gathering over the place that his genius has reared and his spirit sustained for nigh forty years, there dawned upon him the light of a day that knows no setting.
The Christian Express
(University of Fort Hare, 1907) The Christian Express
The Letters Patent embodying the Constitution of the Transvaal have now been published. The Letters direct the Governor of the Transvaal to reserve Bills "which make persons not of European birth or descent subject to special disabilities and restrictions." With reference to Native administration, the Governor continues paramount chief, and provision is made for the Governor "to summon consultative assemblies of Native reserves." Swaziland is to be remain separate from the Transvaal proper and is to be governed as a Protectorate. The provisions will call for the exercise of much tact and firmness on the part of the Governor.
The Christian Express
(University of Fort Hare, 1909) The Christian Express
On the occasion of the prize distribution at the Diocesan College, Rondebosch, on the 7th ult., Lord Selborne, the High Commissioner, addressed the boys in words in which for wisdom and eloquence are to be remembered among the noble utterances of the past year. the men of South Africa, he said, must be patriotic, and stout and good, South African first, but they must be good sons of the Empire also. Between these two patriotisms there is no clash-the one is the complement of the other.
The Christian Express
(University of Fort Hare, 1898) The Christian Express
On the morning of the 15th ult., Rev. Dr. Bryce Ross died somewhat suddenly at Wiltondale, near Kei Road Station. He had been in his usual health during the previous week and attended a meeting of the Bible Revision Committe in King William's Town. He left that place on Monday, the 14th, intending to go on to Dordrecht during the hot weather. In the evening of that day, he was not feeling quiet well. His illness was not such to cause serious alarm, but during the night probably from failure of the heart's action he passed away out of his world as quietly as he had passed through it. His life as a missionary was long, laborious, earnest and fruitful. It embraced the whole range of missionary work, from care for the conversion of individual souls, to the care and planting of out-station churches, constant preaching, the supervision of schools, and the translation of the Bible into the Kaffir vernacular.
The Christian Express
(University of Fort Hare, 1914) The Christian Express
A letter has appeared over the signature W. W. Soga in the Cape Mercury of the 5th ultimo dealing with an informal talk by Mr. E. Gilfillan, Special Magistrate for Native Affairs in the King William's Town Division, addressed to an assembly principally composed of head men, at the beginning of the month. Mr. Gilfillan appears to have complained of the worry he experienced in borrowing from Government to meet dipping expenditure, and to have informed the head men that he had been communicating with Government to ascertain how these loans were to be met. He then commented upon the overcrowded condition of the locations, the deficiency of the grazing for the number of stock running upon it, and the question of fencing, particularly as affecting the commonages of surveyed locations.
The Christian Express
(University of Fort Hare, 1915) The Christian Express
The year has just drawn to a close has brought to light many things that are commonly under the surface in the character of both men and nations. Meanness, dishonour, treachery have appeared where least looked for. on the other hand, honour, self-sacrifice and heroism have shine glorious, on a scale never before seen in the world's history. We may therefore take courage as the New Year open. Humanity is not falling back. Human life was never more willingly or more nobly laid down. Human brotherhood was never more widely acknowledged. Our own nation is, we believe, being purified; our manhood is becoming more manly; our national ideals are becoming clearer to our eyes.
The Christian Express
(University of Fort Hare, 1913) The Christian Express
The newspaper of Monday the 16th ult. brought the surprising news to their readers throughout South Africa that the Cabinet crisis, of which there had been reports at the close of the preceding week, but which the public had not been inclined to take too seriously, had led to the resignation on Saturday forenoon, the 14th, of General Botha; and that the Governor-General had accepted his resignation and had invited him to form a new administration. This step is immediately connected with the resignation of Colonel Leuchars on the previous day and is commonly attributed to difficulties arising out of undue pressing on the part of General Hertzog, and possibly of his supporters, of the line of policy with which his name has been specially identified.
The Christian Express
(University of Fort Hare, 1903) The Christian Express
A hundred years ago or thereby there were no Protestant missions in Africa. During the century recently closed, and in the two years already gone of this new century, an ever-increasing missionary army has been gradually organised, great compared with the nothing of a hundred years ago, small compared with the Church at its back, infinitesimal when confronted with the huge task before it. At the beginning of a new year, it may be of interest to survey very briefly this army which is set in array against the forces of heathenism and Mohammedanism in the dark continent.
The Christian Express
(University of Fort Hare, 1911) The Christian Express
God is demanding of us all a new order of life, of a more arduous and self-sacrificing nature than the old. But if, as we believe, the way of duty is the way of revelation, there is certainly implied, in this imperative call of duty, a latent assurance that God is greater, more loving, nearer and more available for our help and comfort than any man has dreamed. Assuredly, then, we are called to make new discoveries, for the Church, and for the world; and, in the strength of that firmer and bolder faith in Him, to face the new age and the new task with a new conservation.
The Christian Express
(University of Fort Hare, 1917) The Christian Express
The year close darkly, with the wintry December of the Northern lands chilling our courage and our faith. No one doubted that many dark days would have to be endured, but it was difficult to forecast how they would come, and it was difficult to prepare for them. Perhaps we are now passing through "the Colenso week" of the great struggle. But it may be that we shall yet see darker days. If God wills it so, His will bell done. The determination of our people was never stronger, nor the certainty of victory surer. the road may yet be long, uphill and painful beyond our imagining, the way of the Cross to a Calvary; but as we believe in a God of justice, we will never doubt that the right will conquer.
The Christian Express
(University of Fort Hare, 1883) The Christian Express
The following is a summary of the Report of Lovedale Missionary Institution for the year 1882. A year ago, we were able to report some advance on 1880; we are glad to be able to report a still further advance on 1881, in numbers, fees, and standard reached. Some of the changes resolved on last year have been carried out; that affecting prepayment of fees has been only partially successful. We have again to repeat that what is wanted in order to strengthen and render permanent in after life, the work done here, is greater moral earnestness, on the part of those who are taught, and the possession of a steady aim in their work and purpose in life.
The Christian Express
(University of Fort Hare, 1916) The Christian Express
The web of South Africa life in 1915 has decidedly been of a mingled yarn, with flaring strands of rebellion and war entwined in its warp and the drab dinginess of drought and scarcity in the weft. To all who have borne any large measure of responsibility it has been a sorely trying year, the close of which many must have heartily welcomed. Yet South Africa as usual has vindicated herself as the land of good hope and wonderful powers of recuperation. Her darkness always gives place to a light that has the promise in it of shining more and more unto the perfect day.
The Christian Express
(University of Fort Hare, 1920) The Christian Express
In our October issue we made an earnest appeal to the Laymen's Missionary Movement to give practical assistance in starting suitable industries foe natives in congested districts. In this connection, it is of interest to note that there was associated with the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast a commercial undertaking, which, through the remarkable development of the cocoa industry referred to more than once in these pages, had become a very prosperous concern, paying out of its profits to the Basel Missionary Society a sum amounting in recent years to more than 20,000 euros a year. To carry on this business. "The Commonwealth Trust Ltd.," has been formed in London, and the profits over five per cent are to be handed to the various bodies in the colony carrying on philanthropic and religious work for the benefits of the natives.