Secondly, what was the object of this meeting?
Dr.Kuyper is silent on these points.

He speaks of the step taken by Mr.Wybergh, but he altogether misrepresents it, forgetting that Mr.Wybergh has given his own account of it.
In the serious condition of affairs in Johannesburg at that time, he went to the State Attorney and the Secretary of State, to acquaint them with his intention to hold a meeting in a large building, called the Amphitheatre, generally used as a circus.

He informed them that the meeting was convened for three objects: 1.

To protest against the arrest of Messrs.

T.R.Dodd and C.D.