DEAN WITH COLD FEET.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 4, 15 January 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

DEAN WITH COLD FEET.

Singularly pessimistic .utterances marked a sermon by Dean Ingo at Westminster Abbey last mon'th. We quote a few extracts. " We have read our newspapers since the beginning oi thc-^fifrflttd "wo can see. 119thSi'"but triumphant and unpun. "ushed devilry," he said.

" We hope we may win through in this war," he .proceeded, "but if not, l>e it known unto thee. 0 Emperor, that wo will not serve thy gods, nor worship the blood-stained image of iron that thou hast set up. "I hope that with the help of our Eastern allies we may escape defeat 'n this war, but wo must face the very unpleasant fadt that the free nations of Western Europe are not strong enough even together to res'st tho terrible military despotism which has grown up upon our flank. "The outlook for democracy and liberty in the old world is r.rt. bright. Wo have, to speak plainly, last our place as a first-class Power. "It is the smallness of our country, not the greatness of our tins, which has Pet a limit to our material power. If. as 1 hope, wo are allowed after this wair to live in peace with our neighbours we shall l>e all the better Christians for having to abate our priele. " Nothing lias .injured English Christian ity s'> much as its apparent connection "with vatffc Colonial dominions and bloated trade returns." The attention of Dean Inge's Bishop ought to be called to a sermon like this, says the London 'Express. '