KAISER'S STRIKING SPEECH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 28 November 1907, Page 3

KAISER'S STRIKING SPEECH.

"GKEA TASTKS STILL IN STORE." Meniel, September 24. In a speech delivered at the town hall yesterday, on the occasiou of the unveiling" of the monument commemorating Prussia's War of Independence, the Emperor said that the people of ISII7 heard the.Word of God and trusted it, and therefore He did not abandon them. Memel was no longer a frontier town of Prussia, but of a German Empire: itVas the foundation stone winch, laid in arduous times, became through the "race of God the foundation stone of the Empire. His Majesty continued: -The surprising and almost incomprehensibly rapid progress of our newlyunited 'Fatherland in all directions, the astonishing development of its trade and coniiu'erce, and its niagnilicent discoveries in the domain of science and technical matters, are Hie result of the reunion of the German tribes to the common Fatherland. Are we in our pride, not to say arrogance, of our people's unlimited capacity for develop-1 ment. going to begin to forget the origin ul' our%li'ci>gth'< I think not. ••The more we are enabled to will * prominent position in all lields of the

world, tJn- more should our people of all classes and trades recognise (tod's providence herein. If our Lord had nut , great tasks still in store for our people. He would not have given it such splendid qualities. As regards the development of our people, then, let us look up to Tleaven and be thankful tor the ~1-nee it has hestoVed. holding us worthy to he shown such proofs ot its solicitude. We will learn the lesson from it all that to-day, too, in the time . of our great prosperity, we must, hold 1 to the old sources, and so, in recogni- ; tion of the Divine ordinance, we will ' work determinedly while it is day. i ''Then each of us can go about his '■ employment—the scholar to his hooks, t (he smith to his anvil, the, peasant to •' his plough, and the soldier to his sword - —to carrv on his trade as beseems a s .rood Christian, and a German: l-lioil we s will be men of action, a determined e people with gaze directed aloft, ever ,ii-ivi»" onward, with the consciousness !l that we have a great duty, a great task t allotted to ns."—Hcuter.