Amazing Prophecy Of Current Events

Northern Advocate, 24 May 1941, Page 2

Amazing Prophecy Of Current Events

TSpecial to “Northern Advocate”] WELLINGTON, This Day. An amazing prophecy uttered by General G. Watson Webb, an American, in a speech on March 18, 1854, addressed to the English, was quoted by Mr J. S. Barton, C.M.G., in the course, of an address on the BritishAmerican co-operation movement at the monthly luncheon of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association. General Webb’s speech was as follows: — “The contingency- to which I allude as being the only one which could prompt an interferences in European affairs, is, I sincerely hope, very far distant, but it is one which should never be lost sight of in England, and which may ultimately be averted altogether by its being constantly kept before the world —I mean a combination of the continent (of Europe! at tcme future day against England as the great embodiment of constitutional liberty in Europe.

We Shall Come “The day may ccme; how soon, if ever, He alone knows in Whose hands are the destinies of nations; hut come when it may, our interests and our feelings will alike combine to make us come to the rescue. “We shall come; it may be from a conviction that, in fighting our battles, we are contending for the cause of constitutional liberty. Our plea or our excuse may be self-preservation; but, in such a contingency, come we will; and be assured that the youthful giant—for we shall be a giant before the day arrives—will not come the less willingly or strike less effectively because his strength will be put forth on behalf of a parent, who, if she was not always a kind mother, gave to us our Anglo-Saxon blood, and sent us forth imbued with her laws, her literature and her love of constitutional liberty.”