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crumply envelopes $ dark with colonial or Indian poatnarka,
in hung4rily awaited. To these firn-lipped Free Churchmen
and their far-away cons, ttJ n land" otanda for the world
wide roa1z , the phenomenon unpairalloliod
in hiotory,
unforaoen by our fatbera. and but bait roaliood by
ourselvea... there have been mistaken and some evil doing
but broadly speaking our race has little to blush for
in the record of the post ton years. " Thin was a
Quaker adaptation of the Imperialist awareness so prevalent
by this time. Quakers were beginning to move from Little
Englandism to a position of "moral" Imperialism; in this
context the Boor War might stand out as an anomaly, an
example of the occasional evil doing to be found in the
beat of Imperialinms The difficult position of Friends
im summed up in an editorial in the Friend
end which condemned
the diplomacy losdin4 to the warl, took an ultra objective
stand betwcen Boer and British, but drew attention to "the
outstanding fact that the vast influences for rood of our
British Empire are a groat trust at the hands of God
that we cannot lay aside. #a"
(1) 12th January 1900.
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Quaker opinion like