THE ELEVENTH HOUR.
William Hohenzollern is a religious man. He reads the Bible. Perhaps, like most ignorant men, he is superstitious. If so, his kind friends in Holland might call his attention to the curiously important part the number eleven has played in the history of the little drama in which he started out as the hero and ended as the arch villain. The war came io an end on ihe eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Turning to the eleventh verse of the eleventh chapter of the eleventh book of the Bible we find this:— "Wherefore, the Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou has not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend thy kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.’’ A curious analogy, surely. The hard-headed will find it an odd coincidence of ,no significance. William Hohenzollern. brooding with-the faces of starving women before his eyes, the cries of children in his ears, his world dream shattered, his kingdom gone, and the shadow ot his doom hovering near, may see in ihe Bible verse a propheev that has been ail too well fulfilled.— “New York Tribune.”
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Otaki Mail, 10 February 1919, Page 4
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