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Tel once more, I believed in America, and believed in her with's difference. believed in her because she had secured her national unity by splendid fight for humanity and freedom. I believed as A, G. Anderson Mr Thio Eng Hok

her Constitution as the most ingenious Mr and Mrs JW, fr. Shelton Hooper [BY THE RT. HOM. G. W. E. Rusarzt.world has ever seen; and I believed frea S. Arohbuttife B.M. Joseph

product af political handicrate that the Appleton Mr C. D. Jackson that, abiding in the tradition of those Me 0. Aynaid Mr. M. R. de Journal who first let her out of European band Mr and Mrs F. M. Dr F. T. Kert age, she would stand fast in her unassail Bailey Sable rtrength, unless her own shores to defined. And to-day-but bere the but were violated and her own praad flag

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Baxter and child Mr G. ously worded as almost to induce comment that, whereas the frustration of Mrs E R. Bellion plianco. "I am anxious to obtain a some other prophecies has dashed car Mr. D. J. Bell symposium of opinions from the most hopes and chilled our hearts, this frus-Mr P. J. Sirbeek

tration has given us new life.

で J. D. Birrul ominept authorities of the day in reply But shall we after all these mis-Mr S. T. Fisting to the question: What will England carriages of prediction, go on prophesy Miss Nellie Black be like in 10301 It would give me great ing. even though we are hailed as the Miss. Elsie Black

ominent authorition of the day.1” pleasure to be able to include your name I think not; and when we are asked to in the list which I am now collecting," say what England will be like in 1830, says the Rt. Hon. GW. E. Russell in had better, before we attempt to

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an adequate response." Alas! It is im-selves in the belief that they were { Mrs J. Clave, Mc H. van Moines possible. Like Amos" of old time, "I the dawn of the Millennium-have pot Mfrs Hankett-Cold 38: Nicolson

was no prophet's soa; but, unlike Amos, I have received no sabesquent call to this perilous ministry. A prophet whose predictions have invariably miscarried

looked

Mr J. Merecki

borce the fruit which

Mrg Volebarn Mr J. for Millenniums are still far away. Me M. for.

WW.LR O'Brien Courtney These great convulsions leave the world Bir J. D. CourtneyMe Olsen changed-perhaps improved, hat not Mr and Mrs T, GMr H.

Disen. improved as the actors in them hoped it

Cruickshank Mr E H. would be. The most reasonable anticiper W. B. Davenport

Miss F Mr G.V. Risch apposite mislead us because the condi- Mr.

and mistytions of human problems never repeat

themselves..

cannot be reckoned among the "moet tiens fail as-autocedents, the most Mr J. DW HMes Biggenbach

eminent authorities" of his day-

When I have peered into the fature, my vision has always failed. What I expected has never come to pass: and events which I thought impossible have arrived at the very moment when I was demonstrating the impossibility When Queen Victoria's life was waning I held that war was impossible as long as she lived and Lord Salisbury was her Minister; but I reckoned without Lard

Milner and Mr Chamberlain When wo

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WHAT THE PROPHETS MAID. illustration of it is not twenty years old. This is profoundly true, and one signal When we mala our attack on the Boer Republics all our official propheta Miss Fern French prophesied Millenniums Military prop. Mr J. T. Gae heta and journalistic prophets predicted Mr M

Gaujvin instant and glorious victory; and, Mrs.Cornclinssen when that was delayed by the inex Goulbourn

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Star blastered about Empire Mr I.

3. Hamilton Mr. P. Templeton subjugation and nonexation. Minister Mr and Mrs W. A. Mr F. G. Thompson Hen. Mr. of religion, who had forgotten their. Hannibal Christianity, preached the blessedness of Mr G. Harper

Mr Ray Traynor-PB Holyoak-Deputy Chairman- bloodshed. Even the Episcopal Fresident Mr D. Haskell

Capt. F. J. Vyge Hon. Mr.

boomi

C.E. Antoo, of the Christian Social Union)

Mr G. G. Wood the doings in South af poured on Capt. J. M. Flay

FO Butcher, Esq. C. S. Gubbay, Esq. an oil of Mr D. S. Hewitt

Mr. Zanta A.H. Compton, Esq. E. V. D. Parr, Esq. unclean consecration." All Alike

joined Mrs A E. Hodgins

W. L. Fattenden, Esq. in a cheras of

of rapturous prediction, and emerge from the conflict purged by fire. We were assured that England would

emerged successful from the inglori Postic

strife of South Africa, I used to say We had forgotten what war was like. New that we have once again realised its horrors, we shall keep out of it, for at least a generation."

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CHASTENED KEFLECTIONS. When panic-mongers rushed about, assuring us that, whether we liked it or

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: not, we should be forced into war by the a purer, toanlier, and more Chnstian

reply that no civilised, educated, and action of Germany, it was obvious to

moral nation would ever again attempt to disturb the peace of Europe. And, when that prophecy, like all its predecessore, was falsified, and the solid Fabric of civilisation was shattered under par feet, the "most gratuitous form of

such as England had not known since. Mr D. Blair nation. That was the prophecy the jevent was ten years of a moral decadence

the days of the Regency.

ever

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On Mondays and Thursdays. All claims must be presented within ten days of the back to his own writings without very The Amsterdam Telegraaf," recently steamer's arrival bere, after which date they cannot be recognised No Claims will humbling reflections about bis own contained in its financial columns the be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.

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Miss Skimmer more cautions, less disposed to prophecy. Handelsblad has appeared an article Mr & Mrs Howe For my own port, long experience of my about the ways in which the Germana MT. J. R. Johns fallibility has restrained me from any in Dutch India, under protection of the

Mr F. B. Johnson Mr & Mrs V, Findlay very confindent predictions, but I will Dutch Government, are trying to accom

Mr & Mrs Jonckheer Smith confess two or three beliefs which have plish their financial and other aima. Sir Ella Kadoorie Mrs Staple Smith been quite signally falsified by the The article refers to the establishment Mr and Mrs. Major-Gen. Ventris

Mr & Mrs T. Kring Mr S. R. Smith of a German bank there with the en- couragement of the Dutch Goreramat. Lembelet

Miss Ventrig The writer raises the question whether Capt. & Mrs B. M. L-Col John Ward it is not dangerous to show such a pre- ference for German capital.

Cameron MacaulayMe and Mrs. G.

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I bad believed profoundly in Rossi The immense portion of the world's face which she occupies; her vast andimani fold wealth; the simple patriotism which characterised her people; and her texacious devotion to historic Christian- ity-all these things seemed to mark her out as the irresistible champion of peace in Dutch Government circles. That

and freedom and order, against the perference behind which the Datch

peed

to

of a military despotism which Court chique acts, lies a great danger. renounced both faith and For the time being wo ahall Bot be more And today-but there is no explicit. We protest against any

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to complete the sentence, and, in facilities being give to the German busi- Mrs B. Almond Mr&Mrs McAinsh deed, it cannot be completed, for the andness.man, because they bring the loss of Mr J. R. F. Flynn Mra McGee is not yet.

our colonies nearer, and also because Anderson

Mr E Moran Again, I believed in Greece. I knew. such people as the Germans have shown Dz and Mre Adger Me W. Morley the imperishable debt which

Europe the

themselves to be in Belgiam deserve na

Mr J. Newberg owes to her in literators, in art, in assistance. Evon without aid given by Mr G. Bannerman Mrs W. G. Fassmore politics, in religion. I knew the heroic the Dutch State to Germans, the Dutch Ir W. Budge Mr J. F. Reid sacrifices which Englishmen had made business man will, in the coming years, Mr and Mrs T. 8. Mr and Mrs G. E. in the past in order to securs her free hare quite enough difficulty to come

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and

family

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