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History of the Month. 



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ates thf hearts of nations. It is the indiscriminate 

 confounding of the innocent with thr guilty, the 

 mad, murderous, wholesale vengeance wreaked 

 l)lindly upon a whole community, that maddens 

 men. And the horror of the present state of things 

 in Russia is that every Jackin-office and every 

 officer in command has felt himself free to regard 

 justice as a negligible element in his administra- 

 tion. " When stamping out red-handed revolution 

 \ou cannot stop to consider too nicely" — the dit 

 ference between the guilty and the innocent? Y<-i 

 that in plain language is what it means. And it is 

 the blood of the innocent that chokes despots. 

 Punish the guilty by all means, but in Heaven's 

 name take every necessary precaution to see tnai 

 no one is adjudged guilty until he has had full op- 

 portunity to prove his innocence. Forgetfulness of 

 the supreme importance of this rule has em]nied 

 manv a throne. 



lore Mr R. W. 

 Perks, M.r. 



Writing of the Nonconformist Mem- 

 bers of the House of Commons last 

 month, I said : — 



Tliere are 176 Free Cliurchmen in the House— more tli;iii 

 all the TJnion-.Kts put tosether— including 73 who captureJ 

 Tory sea's. With fhp exception of .Vr. Perku, they are df- 

 rated to tht eaute of Tpeaet. 



Mr. Perks says that the words which he has italicised 

 " are a falsehood so far as I am concerned." He 

 asks me to withdraw the statement. This I do with 

 the greatest pleasure, fully and frankly accepting 

 Mr. Perks's assurance that he is now devoted to 

 the cause of peace, as conclusive as to his present 

 attitude. The way 1 fell into the mistake, which I 

 now correct, was that, perhaps not unnaturally, 1 

 had judged Mr. Perks by his past record, and was 

 in ignorance of his new-born zeal in the good cause. 

 But how delightful it is to see the bellicose Jingoes 

 of 1900 tumbling over each other in the eager desire 

 to protest their devotion to peace in 1906! "But 

 while the lamp holds out to burn," etc. There is 

 still room at the national penitent form for other 

 returning prodigals, and nothing should be further 

 from our mood than to .spare the fatted calf. 



Miss Alice Roosevelt and Mr. Nicholas Loneworth, 



Who were married on Februar.v 17th at tlie White House, 

 Washington. 



Photograph b;/ Edirard S. CurtU. Stereo'iraph copyright. 

 UndeTiri^od and tl ndenrood. London, New york aijd 

 Helboume. 



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