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Sinclair M<strong>ac</strong>donald <strong>of</strong> St, Stephon"s Westminster equated<br />

betrayal <strong>of</strong> Gordon with betrayal <strong>of</strong> the Empire, "a nation<br />

which has <strong>ac</strong>ted in the way in which we have been <strong>ac</strong>ting<br />

during the pant twelve months, is unfit any longer to carry<br />

out those high destinies with which God had at one time<br />

entrusted un. 'E,<br />

)<br />

Gordon'n example was linked with the<br />

idea <strong>of</strong> an Imperial mission, as Jowett said in his sermon<br />

at ß4lliol, "... wo follow the path in which he has shown<br />

us the way$ not desiring to <strong>ac</strong>quire military prestige or<br />

national glory, but that we may restore pe<strong>ac</strong>e and freedom<br />

and order to one <strong>of</strong> the moot oppreneed regiono <strong>of</strong> the earth. I(2)<br />

A Church <strong>of</strong> England olergyrsan on hearing <strong>of</strong> the relief<br />

orpedition plane in 1884, "wrote to the Timen to nay that<br />

it others would <strong>go</strong>y 1 would, nhoulder a musket and enlist<br />

in a voluntary expedition. " Tho C. M. S. had a<br />

particular inter<strong>ac</strong>t in Gordon. At a meeting for young men<br />

on 24th March 188.5, the Earl <strong>of</strong> Cairns linked the Gordon<br />

1) Quoted in Annio Besant1 O cit1 p. 5,<br />

(2) Quoted in Eva Fiopo, O cit, p. 436*<br />

(3) Gordon and En land 1a a+.<br />

rnon pre<strong>ac</strong>hed at St, Stephon'o<br />

dort<br />

nnter, 22nd February 1885, by William M<strong>ac</strong>donald<br />

Sinclair, London 188, p. 15.

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