struggle for the
same belief and hope in Palestine, which was at his time as far as a
voyage around this planet to-day? Is not this same belief and hope the
corner stone of Westminster Abbey and Saint Paul's, of this church and
of every church on this island, and of every great and beautiful deed
that you inherited from your ancestors?

Yet the belief and hopes of our kings were never different from the

BELIEF AND HOPES OF THE SERBIAN PEOPLE.

The Serbian people have shown their individuality only in the dark time
of their slavery. The saint and the heroic kings died, but their souls
lived still in the hearts of their people, in the white churches they
built among the green mountains, in their deeds of mercifulness and
repentance. The enslaved people were conscious that there were no more
kings of their own who represented all that was the best in the Serbian
soul, and that they, the people, have now themselves to represent the
Serbian name, belief and hopes before God and their enemies. And they
have done it.

At the time when Columbus sailed over the seas to find a new continent
in the name of the most Christian King of Spain, the Serbian suffering
for the Christian religion had already begun.

At the time when the famous English thinker Thomas More wrote _Utopia_,
preaching brotherhood among men based upon religious and political
freedom, the Serbs stood there without any shadow of religious and
political freedom, dreaming of and singing about the human brotherhood
founded only on the ruins of both tyranny and slavery.

At the time when the great Shakespeare wrote his tragedies in ink, the
Serbs wrote theirs in blood.

At the time when Cromwell fought in the name of the Bible for the
domestic freedom of Parliament, the Serbian leaders gathered in the
lonely forests to tell each other of the crimes that they saw defiling
the Cross, to confess to each other their cruel sufferings and to
encourage each other to live.

At the time when Milton wrote _Paradise Lost_, the Serbs felt more than
anybody in the world the loss of Paradise.

At the time when Livingstone went to dark Africa with the light of human
civilisation, Serbia was ruled by darker powers even than Central
Africa.

At the time when the great English philosopher Locke wrote his famous
book on the education of men, the people of Serbia had no schools and no
teachers at all; they educated themselves by the memories of the great
deeds of the heroe