The Archive · 1914

From the Pulpit

Sermon preached by the Rev. E, Darwent in Union Church, Sunday evening, November 15.

I Kings XVII. 1-3.

"Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Dah King ut Israel, that Hezekiah the son of It seems that " Who's Who" has misled us. A correspondent writes to point out that Sir Roger Casement retired from the Consulship-General of Janeiro in August, 1913, and that he has since been prominent in Ulster in connexion with Home Rule. Therefore, we must ery "peccavimus," Yet if Sir Roger Casement is not still at Rio, he ie just as much geographically unavailable for purposes of a special mission to the German Foreign And what are the Irish Nationalists ikely to think of such an expedition (always supposing it could have occurred a¢ alleged by German sheets) and of the dulcet assurances alleged to have been given by the Berlin Foreign Office? We do not need the letter from " Nationalist published to-day, to show us what his fellow-countrymen are likely to think of the whole story; and what they think other people are likely to think too. The " Deutscher Uberseedienst" had better try again.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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