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were informed that a counter petition would be
drawn up. Clifford who was always among the more
cautious suction of the peace party, advocated that the
anti-war petition be withdrawn$ but he wac over-ruled
and it continued, though signatories had to sign
as individual xnaabcrc of various churches and not an
members of the free Church Congress*
(1)
Nonconformist
feeling had been diluted over the Tranevgal issue even
since 1899, The militancy of a few individual ministers
disguised the extent to which there had bean a retreat
fron the pre-war position.
There had always boon an
anti-Boor attitude among Free Churchmen, - the real
issue had always been - should federation of the colonies
in South Africa be voluntary and peaceful or the result
of war.
Individually a hi; h level of activity wan maintained
in 1900. Of aaverml hundred names of auppor. tern sent
to the B. T. u, C, over half were from Nonconformist
ministers,
In Dundee, the Nev. Waltor
. tialoh led the
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