CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 74, 17 April 1906, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

DECLINE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. To tlie Editor. Hit,— A friend lent" me a small book called ilie "Do'eline and Fall of the British Empire," pMoe cd. Th.s little book b worthy of perusal to all who love their country. ■" showing the .cause of the fall of ancient Rome and lajmg bari. th? fact that English people aie treading the swno. doviyward pa *. All who love the old land should hasten to possess this cheap warning erfl the toe is at tho gate. What will EnglfiP? be without fiei- commerce, and what atf J>° see in the journals of the day of the ' plan of Germany in building immense vessels td wrench commerce form us. | Beware, Oh Engkiid, and discern the , signs of tho times ere the foa fs at the gate. If the British race wishes to become the peoplo of God they must remember and act up to the caution given iri thd Now Testament ending with "Arid we shall know oven as we are knov.r/;" arid so shapa their conduct in all matters a 4 to be supported in the day of battle by tho ttu«. and Almighty being they claimed to believe/ in- Will tho clergy publish from their pulpits a list of sins of thought, word, and deed wherein we offend the Holy Trinity, and continue to do so until there is not a human being on earth who does not know his duty to thn Great Creator? I am, etc., anglo saxon-