Germanys Tasks

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13450, 23 November 1907, Page 3 (Supplement)

Germanys Tasks

In a speech delivered at Mem el on September 23rd,; on the occasion of the un- ; veiling of the monument commemorating Piussia's War of Independence, the Emperor spoke of the lessons of 1807 (the? Napoleonic Invasion). - !His; Majesty continued " The.: surpriseing and almost incomprehensibly .rapid progress of our ; newly-united Fatherland' in ;all ;directions, the astonishing develop-; ment of its trade and'commerce, and its magnificent discoveries in the domain of; science and technical: matters are the re-: suit of the reunion of the German tribes, to tlie common Fatherkind.: Are ws, in; "our piide, not to say arrogance,: of oiir people's unlimited capacity for develop-: menfc going tobegin -to forget ■ the origin, of pur Strength? I think "not. The inorer we are enabled to win- a prominent' posi-.. fion in all fields of the world the more: should our people of .all classes, and' traded recognise God's providence herein.' If our Lord God has not great tasks still in store for: our people He would not have given it such splendid 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. in the time of our great prosperity, we must- hold to the old sources, and so, in recognition -of' : the divine or-duiance, we i- will work determinedly while it- is day. Then each of "us can go about his employtnent: the scholar to • Kis books, the, smith to his anvil, the peasant to his I-plough, and the soldier to his sword,' to carry on his trade' as beseems a good Christian and a German. Then we will be .men of action, a ; determined people with gaze directed aloft, ever stirring • onWfird, with the consciousness that we have a..great duty, a great task allotted to us. —Pouter.