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Churchmen and Churchwomen 3 must wish that the war may be 

 prosecuted by all legitimate means until victory is won ; but 

 that, when the war is over, nothing may be done to infect the 

 international future with the vices of the past or the present. 

 German militarism must, I think, be slain. They who have 

 takmi the sword must perish with the sword. The German 

 navy, if it survives the war, must be wrested from the Kaiser. 

 Krupp's works at Essen must be destroyed. But God has 

 ordained in the drama of human history a part for the Germans 

 as much as for Britons or Frenchmen or Russians ; and so 

 long as they will play that part pacifically without indulging 

 in wild and wicked dreams of universal conquest, it will be the 

 wisdom of all the nations to let Germany accomplish her legiti- 

 mate destiny. But Great Britain will never have stood higher 

 in the judgment of the world than she will stand at the con- 

 clusion of the war. She will have fought an honourable fight ; 

 she will have fought in redemption of her own solemn pledges ; 

 she will have fought for the lofty moral and spiritual interests 

 of humanity. It must be the prayer of all who " because of the 

 House of the Lord their God, would seek her good," that, high 

 and holy as shall be the office of Great Britain among the 

 nations, not less high and not less holy shall be the office of 

 the Church in Great Britain and in all the British Empire. 



The Chairman, in offering the most cordial thanks of the Meeting 

 for the interesting and inspiring Address of the Dean of Manchester, 

 said that the Annual Meeting differed from the other Meetings in that 

 there was no discussion : they were there to listen, not to discuss. And 

 perhaps this was fortunate, as the Meeting would have to be a very long 

 one if it entered in the numerous matters of controversy touched upon 

 in the Dean's Address, and he, for one, might have ventured to 

 break more than one lance with the Lecturer. 



The Rev. Prebendary Fox, on behalf of the Council, proposed a 

 hearty vote of thanks to the Bishop for his valuable Address. 



Archdeacon Beresford Potter, in seconding the vote of thanks 

 to the Lecturer, said that in two directions he considered that the 

 war was tending to our good : (1) in that it had caused us to look 

 into and check our intellectual conceptions of what Christianity is 

 and of its relation to Science and to Archaeology ; and (2), as the 

 Bishop had pointed out, it was showing us that Christianity must be 



