The Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. MONDAY, JULY 6, 1942 SANCTUARY OF LIBERTY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 74, 6 July 1942, Page 4

The Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. MONDAY, JULY 6, 1942 SANCTUARY OF LIBERTY

AS long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the spns of England worship freedom, they will turn towards you. The more they multiply, the more friends you will have; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience. Slavery they can have everywhere. It is a weed: that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of which you have the monopoly. It is the spirit of the English Constitution, which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies every part of the Empire, even down to the minutest member. —Edmund Burke, in 1775. From these honoured dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they have given the last full measure of -devotion; we here highly resolve that the deacl shall not have died in vain, that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom,, and that the government of the people, by the epople, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. —Abraham Lincoln, in 1863. And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen ? And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills ? And was Jerusalem builded here Amongst these dark Satanic mills ? Bring me my Bow of burning gold! Bring me my Arrows of desire ! Bring me my Spear ! 0 clouds, unfold! Bring me my Chariot of fire ! I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land. —William Blake, 1757-1827. These English are the most interesting study in the world. Just when you'd like to hang them for their ity„ you become aware of such noble stuff in them that you thank God that they were your ancestors. —Walter Hines Page, U.S.A. Ambassador to Great Britain, in 1916.