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Show Good Word For Cromwell. At a meeting of the Irish Literary society, so-ciety, says the Tablet, where Cromwell was denounced as an archplunderer and persecutor "who could commit the most appalling massacres with the name of God on his lips and the Bible in his hand," a strange thing happened. The I question was asked from the platform had anyone a good word to say for Cromwell? Could anyone dare? Then, amidst an audience that had applauded the speaker's words to the echo uprose a solitary figure. Cromwell, he said, had been just to Jews: and he seemed to speak with racial feeling. That bread, flung by Cromwell upon Jewish waters, while he dyed Catholic seas with blood, returned to him, after many days, in a quarter the least to be expected. ex-pected. The audience was surprised by the apparition of the man with the good word; and it was also touched. s |