een liberty-loving. They had been anxious for
three centuries to throw off the yoke of Austria. There is no record
that Sophie Chotek sympathized with the aims of her countrymen or that
she was not in complete accord with the views of her husband and the
political interests of the empire. But the experiences of the Germans
and Austrians had taught them that a Bohemian was likely to remain
always a Bohemian and that his freedom-loving people would not
countenance plans having in view the enslavement of other nations. The
Germans may have looked with suspicion upon the Bohemian wife of the
archduke and thought it advisable to remove her also.

Prinzip was thrown into prison and kept there until he died. No
statement he may have made ever had a chance to reach the world. No one
knows whether he was a German or a Serbian tool. He does not seem to
have been an anarchist; neither does he seem to have been of the type
that would commit such a crime voluntarily, knowing full well the
consequences. It is not hard to believe that he was under pay and
promised full protection.

Probably no Bohemian considers Sophie Chotek a martyr; indeed, the
evidence is strong that she was not. Her heart and soul probably were
with her royal spouse. But an interesting outcome is, that her
assassination, a contributing cause to the war, finally led to the
downfall of Germany, the wreck of Austria, the freedom of her native
country, and that Spiritual Emancipation of nations and races, then so
gloriously under way.

Also, to the thoughtful and philosophic observer of maturing symptoms
transpiring continuously in the affairs of mankind; the fate of those
nations of earth that in their strength and arrogance mock the Master,
furnish a striking corroborative vindication of the Negro's faith in the
promises of the Lord; the glory and power of His coming. From the date,
reckoning from moment and second, that Gavrio Prinzip done to death the
heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary and his duchess, there commenced
not alone a new day, a new hope and Emancipation of the whites of earth;
empire kingdom, principality and tribe, but of the blacks; the Negro as
well, so mysteriously; bewilderingly, moves God His wonders to perform.

It was that subliminated faith in the ubiquity and omniscience of God;
the unchangeableness of His word; than which the world has witnessed;
known nothing finer; the story of the concurrent causes that projected
the Negro into t