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The co*tont of I+onconfornist resolutions showed
considerable identification of the dicoentera with the
Arabs in their struggle for freedom. Ilowman Hall put
this view specifically when he wrote "I feel no doubt
that you will utter your protost, ngoinst nn English
army marching to fight Arab Vonconfornicto who refuse
longer to submit to an intolerable tyranny. " (I) Nonconformists
were doubtless influenced by Gladstonetc description of
the X abd&ntn as a people atruggling to be free $ and thoy
could also refer to Gordon's sympathies with the Arab
revolt against the ECyptionn" But dissenters in
fooling thcmcolvec underprivileged in comparison with
the Established Church, would tend to identify with
opprouccd peoples abroad` The Arab utrugglo against
the Egyptian Pacbaa could find its parcllell in the
,
tgland
1 ouconformiot fight against the Conservative Establishment.
fenco they referred to the Sudanese as "a bravo nation
reciatin ; opproscion, "Bravo non fighting for their
independence, " (3)
(i) Ptanconformint and in4e
(2) bid, 26th 1obruary 4885.
(3) xbid"
ena felt that we "sucht to retire..
. eanäent, 28th Fabruary 1ßL.