ABSTRACT
To church, an excellent service by the same curate we had at Christmas on our Lord's first temptation ‘Command that these stone be made bread’. Incidentally he pointed out how great a part famines have played in the world's history from the panem et circenses of the Roman Empire to the days of the French revolution. I sometimes wonder if we shall live to see a revolution in England, things go fast. This Home Rule Bill is a revolution yet the English people won't see it. Election after election goes against us, fought really on some petty, personal, local issue but with the result of returning men pledged to support this most iniquitous measure. Then they have brought a bill preliminary to the disestablishment of the Welsh Church 1 and endless other mischievous proposals are mooted, even the payment of members with the Panama and the Banca Romana scandals before us. 2
