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everything. In this way I had wheat, maize, oats, vegetables and fruit from the farm for my family, I just needed to fetch
it, until a big flood in 1893 destroyed the dam and water trenches and we had to build a new dam and trenches at high costs together with the owners higher up. But then everything worked again and this small farm supplied me with everything until in 1916 the Hartebeespoort Dam was built and my small farm fell into the area that the government needed and the government bought the property from me for ₤ 2000!!
So this farm had maintained me for a full 32 years and in the end I still got a good price for it and with the yield I could
pay all my debts that had accrued over ten years for the maintenance for Theodor in Germany and the building of the house on Waaikraal!!
So, our merciful God had given me everything that I needed! He had led everything so wonderfully, that Adriaan Klopper offered Waaikraal at the right time to father, when he had the possibility of paying, and offered Barnard Klipkop to me and then I was provided with everything I needed to buy it! Father had given his farm to the Mission with everything that was on it and, behold, this rich Lord led my father to where he could do big missionary work and guided everything so that he could afford a farm and his son as well! Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all His benefits!! But He gave us even more!!