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heroism, and its wonderful virtues, balance the pain and
horror. " ,)
The Boers were cospered to Lucifer and
his fallen angele carrying on a cunning and deceitful
warfare against the forces of rights
(a)
The Vicar of
Edgbaston parish church saw the army na the instrument of
"the God of battl©s"R and followed this up with a
reminder of Sritain$o special mission to colonioo the
world*
(3)
The Vicar of St, Austell oxplained$ "God
has given us a capacity which he had denied to them.,. tho
English race has a perfect genius for cclonizaticn.,. And
this in why No designs as I believes that we chould be
paramount in Africa. "' (4)
The Church of England played
A special role in repreaentinj Imperialist expansion an
the will of Gad.
If further inducement to Imporiulicm was needed it
was supplied ty the missionaries of the Society for the
Propagation of the Go5pol$ the Bishop of tho Pretoria
(1) '=wuoted in Alfred Market The Churohm rind the South Afrienn
t,, ar, London 1905, p. l5.
(2) Ibid. p. 17* sermon by Dr. Powell, Vicar of St. Paulo
Ilaidstone.
(3) , nrjnndi'n Zi ton$
,a war sermon by Rev. A. G. Lloyds curate
of St. Mary and Lt. Ambrose in Edgbaston Pariah Church.
(4) Three nin l nrmonn for the Dry of Intorcenmion,,
preached
on 11th February 1900, by I ov. Canon Hammonds Vicar of
St, Auctoll"