KAISER'S STRIKING SPEECH.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11127, 16 November 1907, Page 3 (Supplement)

KAISER'S STRIKING SPEECH.

"GREAT TASKS STILL IN STORE." MEMEL, September 24. . In a speech delivered at the town hall here yesterday on the occasion of the unveiling of the monument commemorating. Prussia's War of "Independence, the Emperor said that' the people of ; 1807 heard the word of God and trusted it, and therefore He did not abapdom theiri. Memel was no longer a frontier town of Prussia, but of a German Empire ; it was the foundation stone which, laid m arduous times, became through the grace of God the foundation stone of 'the Empire. His Majesty continued. : . < , "The surprising and almost incomprehensibly rapid progress of our newly united Fatherland m all directions, the astonishing development of its trade and commerce, and its magnificeht discoveries m the domain of science and technical matters, are the result of the reunion J of the German tribes to the common Fatherland. Are we m our pride not to say arrogance, of our people's unlimited capacity for development, going to b'efin to forget the origin of our rtrength? think riot. "The more we are enabled to win- a prominent position m all fields, of the world the more should our people of all classes and trades recognise God's providence herein. If. our Lord God had not great tasks still m store 'for our people,: He would not have given it such gp lendid qualities. As regards the development of our people, then, let us look, up to Heaven and be thankful for the grace it has bestowed, holding us worthy to be shown such proofs of its solicitude. We' will learn the lesson from it all that to-day, too, m .the time oft. our great prosperity, we must h°ld to the old sources, and so, m recognition of the -Di vine ordinance, we will, work determinedly while it is day. "Then, each qf us can go about his employrilent— the scholar to his books, the smith to his ailvih the peasaht to his plough, and the soldier to . his swOrd— >- to carry ori his trade as beseems a good Christian and a German ; then we will be men of ajption, a determined people with gaze directed aloft, ever striving onward, with the consciousness that we have a great duty, a great task alloted to us." — Reuter. " - .