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amorality, fair doaling and respect for tho rights of
small nations.
There was a real division in Iothodiot opinion duo,
to Weoleynn Methodist addiction to an Iuperittliot point
of view. V. T. Stead aunr od up the situation when he
said that, two thirds of -U'oncontorzxist3 were aouudly anti-
w&r but (rice J1ugbes "hays had an evil influence. " (1)
Hugh Price Hughes, paradoxically wan ono. of the Toro
advanced Evangelicals an for as Church reform went, but
won also violently anti-Boer. He had been converted to
Imperialism over Egypt in 1885% - hic comment an cooing
a Dritich soldier in Alexandria in 1900 wags "the wretched
Egyptians have at last attained something approaching
biippinemn in this world. Uverywhore justice t-nd the
Pax ßritonnial"
(2)
His attitude
to South Atrien
wau moulded by a boliof in tho destiny of the British
race to by mupreio1 a diolike of iorOicnCrn ada view of
Hothodicu na an imperial religion which could piny a
leading role in an Anglo-Saxon federation. He wrote
(1) Campbollu-Bannor. moa 1932. ADD XAkvº. 41,211.4
Jack Bryce, 30th : optezbaý
r 1ý99.
. To Stood to
(2) Dorothea Prjco FUucheo, LLfeof Huch Prim }turhnnt London
(3) Ih,,,,
id.
1904, p. 550.