SOME REFLECTIONS.

Grey River Argus, 29 December 1915, Page 2

SOME REFLECTIONS.

CLERICS ON THE OUTLOOK

[PEE PBESS ASSOCIATION — COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, December 27.. Special Xirias Day services were^ Veu. Arclideaoon Wilberforce, Arch-t leacon of Westminster, explained his prayers for. the German ..people. "We are not praying," he said, "that they may not be vanquished or punished, but be emancipated from the curse of Pvussiatiism and strike off tke tetters of the cruel military despotism hjcli oppresses them/ Dea.n" Inge, preaching a.t St. Paul's \thedral, called on the nation to naugurate a great campaign of economy. "We must face the certainty." \& "said, "that Britain will emerge ■rom the war very poor. To do somehing useful, and make good what Aye i M,Y,i| ; : |9stv,,^puld.---t)^ our aim."

Canon Carnegie said that the most painful lesson of the war was Britain's lack of strong, intelligent leadership. The selection of me" to lead the nation should have been more in the hands of the people.