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Show A Silly MUjion. Rev. Dr (Iconic ('. 1-orlmer of Boston Bos-ton Is In liondon. He ia the aensntlon. al pastor of Tremont Temple when he Is at home and hla religion la a mixture mix-ture of many, with politics thrown In aa a side llt.e. Hluce reaching Kng-Innd Kng-Innd he has found, tn his dismay, that a considerable number uf the clergymen clergy-men are not only opposed to the Hocr war but publicly avow auch oppoaltlon. To the lirlmer mind thla la rebellious, rebel-lious, un-4brlatlnn. Indecent, Ho la ao deeply offended that ho Is going to take the runt rum and apend the next two months denouncing these clergymen clergy-men In case he futla to convert thetn. It will be Interesting to know how ninny ronverta the doctor will make aiming thla rlnaa. Naturally they will reaent the presence nf a foreigner who comes to abuse them If they do not full Into Hue, with his suitnestlons; again It will strike them aa qdeer that tha United Htiilea, which au generally boa sympathized with the liners, should furnish a clergymnn to misrepresent hla countrymen at the, seat of Hrltlah power and to trnduce thoae who, from a acinic of Justice, feel Impelled to take Itaiip with their government because they belli ve It tn be In the wrong. Mr. Iirlntct would have these men ..evat contrary to the dictates nf their con-tci-Tites in considering the war and support It blindly, lie haa a atranga conception nf KiikIIi.1i character, which la nothing If not candid and fearless of coneiuence.i, when It comes to determining deter-mining pub'lc questions. Americana repudiate Uirlmer and hla mission. They aympitthlie with the Ilocrs und all the bellowing of the Huston preacher cannot change thla sentiment. They reaped the Kngllah clergy who have the courage to record tholr opposition to the unequal atrug-glo atrug-glo In Bunt li Africa and feel that nun of thla atnmp have nuthlng to fear at the handa of the .Mnssachitaetta ranter who representa only hlmaelf In the aelf-ni pointed, cheeky and und-mo-crntlc mlseloti he has undertaken. |