The Covenanter, the organ of the League of British Covenanters,
makes an excellent start with contributions in prose from Lord Milner, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Sir Edward Carson, and Mr. Walter Long, and a sonnet from Mr. Kipling. Lord Balfour, writing on "Scotland and the Covenant," observes that the echoes of the Covenanters' Psalm, said to linger still among the hills of Scotland, will be silenced for ever if Scotland sends her sons to coerce the Covenanters of Ulster," and Dr. Watkinson, a former President of the Wesleyan Conference, has a telling comment on the strange development of the Nonconformist conscience. "Speaking approvingly of the French Chamber of Peers, one said, ' At least you there find consciences.' Ah, yes,' replied Talleyrand, 'a great many consciences ; Semonville, for example, has at least two.' So far as the Nonconformist supporters of Home Rule are concerned con- science has become twofold, as with Semonville."
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