Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-30
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What was it that made Lincoln the greatest figure in human history? It was the sublime simplicity of his mind. his glorious fidelity to the eter- nal truths that sl1one for him as they shine for all of us if we y>ill but lift our eyes from the gutter to the stars his freedom from the tyranny of the noisy, scrambling, bat-eyed tumuIt around him. He saw ttat n5n was something more than the slave of the machine he had created, and with his few simple ideals he clove his way to the most glorious and disinterested victory ever achieved by man for men If humanity is not to perish it must recover it's vision It mus. emerge from the machine into what Words worth calls '-the, light of things. It must renew it's faith to the first prin- ciples of existence and make the ma master of it's fate.-Aipha Of the Plough in the Star (London).
 A lion hearted Italian mayor, wei coming allied warriors to his native land, declares that the hour of new Italy as she never was united before
 That means much. No other people on earth know so bitterly the meaning of disunion. The Italy which Napo- leon remodelled. the land which had been the henovelent mistress of the en- tire known world, was divided into the ili-governed Papal States. into the Austrian possessions in Lombardy. in-
 to the Bourbon possessions at unfap-
 py Naples, into five futile republics There is inspiration in the thought
 of the allied conference at Nervi. for it lies only seven miles from Genoa,
 which gave to the world two of its zinf. The one discovered realms
 which Caesar never knew: the oth-
 CT restored the nation which gave Caesar birth It was at Genoa that
 the sentence of death passed upon him
 for his attempt to take this old port
 that drove him to America, where. in
 CoIurbus's world. he married the he- roic wona., who became ancestress of the carihaldis fighting for the Moth- eriand today.
 The fighting around eee-sheba, Ga ga, and other famous biblical cities
 must have awakened strange memo
 ries in the hearts of our men. Little did they think ? few years ago. when reading a none too interesting chapter in Sunday school, that they would ever set eyes on the places of which they were learning. A visit to the Prom ised Land some few mieht have deem : as conauerorsi Not one could have
 dreamed of that Likelihood. David's
 battles are being fought over again in
 real life, and the boys of our Sunday
 schools are winning them.
 My friend Mrs. X showed me few
 months ago some extracts from let-
 ters she had received from her hus-
 band. an English colonel at the Ital-
 ian front with the British guns. which
 were then cooperating in the victo-
 rions offensive. She has given mo permission to send them to you, and
 at such moment as this their publi- cation one thinks, would be in sea-
 son. I give the extracts with their
 dates, as they lie before me; 1t needs
 no comment to show their interest as the spontaneous private testimony of one of our countrymen who had excep- tionaf means and qualifications for
 forming opinions:
 May zs. 1s17-"The Italians are per- fectfy m4gnincent. have newer seen such splendid work. For sheer va1eur
 they beat everybody. Their infantry take everything, in spite of awful diff ficufties- Cadorna seems q
 marvel"
 May FIT wish people at home