Day 2 South Africa Blyde River Canyon, Cape periwinkle and “hook and poke”

The name for this river which predates 1844 was Motlatse. This word means ‘a river that is always full’ in the sePulana dialect of Northern Sotho.

Then during the time of a voortrekker expedition in 1844 a party of voortrekkers including Hendrik Potgieter failed to return to the main encampment near the river and the river was named ‘Treurriver’ meaning mourning river. Hendrik Potgieter and the group then later returned safely from Delagoa Bay and they renamed it Blyde River.

It is no part of Christ’s mission to compel men to receive Him. It is Satan, and men actuated by his spirit, that seek to compel the conscience. Under a pretense of zeal for righteousness, men who are confederate with evil angels bring suffering upon their fellow men, in order to convert them to their idea of religion; but Christ is ever showing mercy, ever seeking to win by the revealing of His love. He can admit no rival in the soul, nor accept of partial service, the willing surrender of the heart under the constraint of love. There can be no more conclusive evidence that we possess the spirit of Satan than a disposition to hurt and destroy those who do not appreciate our work, or who act contrary to our ideas .

EG White Desire of Ages p487