‘The season is again upon us’: Editorial, 24th of 12th month, 1897

22 Dec 2022 | by Editorial, 24th of 12th month, 1897

‘We stand humiliated at our economic strife and our frontier wars.’

‘Come, oh breath and breathe upon these slain.’ | Photo: Henry Stanley Newman, Editor of The Friend 1897

The season is again upon us that men call the festival of peace and goodwill. Yet the atmosphere at home and national relationships abroad breathe the spirit of unrest rather than of abiding peace. Uncertainty like the rocking of a sea that cannot rest surrounds us, rather than the quiet waters that reflect the heaven above.

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