THE BELL.
The Rev. T. - Rhondda Williams, speaking recently as Chairman of the Congregational Union, said:—‘Before the war there was a bell in Cologne Cathedral bearing the inscription: ‘I am the Emperor’s bell; I proclaim the Emperor’s honour.’ It had been made out of cannon captured by the Germans from the French, and they evidently did not think it derogatory to God that it should proclaim in the Church honours won in the war. When I went into the cathedral two years ago I missed the bell, and asked the janitor what had become of it. ‘Oh’ he said ‘in 1918 we had to take it down and melt it to make munitions.’ What irony of history! War material melted to make a bell, and after more than forty years of proclaiming the Emporor’s honour, the bell goes back to make fighting material once more. So much for the honours that can be won in war, and the Empre that can be built with the sword.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1930, Page 2
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166THE BELL. Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1930, Page 2
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