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 resistance that he found himself engaged in writing an elaborate treatise as a rule of conduct.

He was an artist of no mean order. Some of his paintings are worth treasuring. His irrepressible humour can be traced in many cartoons he drew for a New Zealand paper.

Mr. Doke had a frail body but he had a mind of adamant. His jaws showed the determination of his Will power. He feared no man because he feared Cod. He believed in his own religion with a burning passion but he respected all the other great faiths of the world.

His special work for Indians during practically the whole of his stay in Johannesburg is well known. He was ever a seeker, ever a friend of the weak and oppressed. As soon, therefore, as he came to Johannesburg, he set about finding out the problems that engaged people's attention. He found the Indian to be one of them, and immediately sought out the leaders, learnt the position from them, studied the other side of the question and finding the Indian cause to be wholly just, allied himself to it with a rare zeal and devotion. He risked loss of popularity among his congregation. But that was no deterrent to him. When the Editor of the "Indian