p. 9 | Cecil Rhodes’s Death and Bequest

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 9, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 15.

Cecil Rhodes’s Death and Bequest

CECIL RHODES, whose life has been so intimately connected with the development of South Africa, and through whose influence the railroad and telegraph are pushing their way up from South Africa to North Africa, died at Cape Town on March 26, after an illness of some weeks. He has been, without question, the most striking and resourceful character connected with the history of South Africa. A report from London states that the bulk of his great fortune was left, by the provisions of his will, to the cause of education; that is, to the intellectual betterment of the British race throughout the world, and the fostering of the imperial sentiment.