ing. With great simplicity and directness he alluded
to the awesome news which this morning had brought
to them, to England. England's declaration of war
against their great neighbour, Germany -- their great
neighbour, and they should never forget, the only
other great European nation which shared with them
the blessings, he was willing to admit the perhaps in
some ways doubtful blessings, brought about by the
Reformation.

On hearing these words, three or four of his hearers
moved a little restlessly in their seats, but soon
even they settled themselves down to take in, and to
approve, what he had to say.

England was going to war, however, in a just cause,
to make good her promise to a small and weak nation.
She had often drawn her sword on behalf of the
oppressed, and never more rightly than now. But it
would be wrong indeed for England to allow her
heart to be filled with bitterness. It was probable that
even at this moment a large number of Germans were
ashamed of what had happened last Monday --
he alluded to the Invasion of Belgium. Frederick the
Great had once said that God was always on the side
of the big battalions; in so saying he had been wrong.
Even in the last two or three days they had seen how
wrong. Belgium was putting up a splendid defence,
and the time might come -- he, the speaker, hoped it
would be very soon -- when Germany would realise
that Might is not Right, when she would confess,
with the large-hearted chivalry possible to a great and
powerful nation, that she had been wrong.

Meanwhile the Dean wished to impress on his
hearers the need for a generous broad-mindedness in

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