lsion in a struggle for life and light. Yet our
confusion and unhappiness chiefly come from ourselves, and neither from
nature nor from God. When will this suffering of man from man stop? We
have been accustomed to speak hopefully about the twentieth century. We
supposed that that century at least would show the serpents as greater
enemies of men than men themselves. We see despairingly to-day that the
serpents are innocent creatures in comparison with men. The tragedy of
crushed and murdered Serbia is a crying proof of how the serpents are
comparatively innocent creatures. Yet Serbia is silent in her tragedy. I
myself would prefer to be silent too. But I cannot, being not only an
unhappy survivor of a horrible shipwreck, but above all a priest and
servant of God.

If our national pride bids us Serbs be silent in this shipwreck, my
Christian honour and pride bids me cry out and protest. I am a surviving
protest of my murdered country. Yet I am still a transitory protest, a
protest only for a moment before God the Slow and the Righteous begins
to protest Himself. My protest is in words, my words are from the air.
But God's protest will be, as always, from the unquenchable fire, which
burns bodies and souls. I indicate only the terrible protest which will
come. Why am I protesting now before you, sons and daughters of Great
Britain? Because you have been the champions of the Bible in the world,
i.e. the champions of justice, freedom and the brotherhood of men.
Because your knights have fought for the Christian Cross and Freedom.
Your island has been an Island of Salvation for all the refugees, who as
champions of liberty must escape from their own countries--among others,
Rousseau, Voltaire and Victor Hugo, even the sons of a very liberal
nation. Your most famous generals and admirals have humiliated the
greatest conqueror of the world and granted him a cottage on a small
island in which to live, instead of the world Empire of which he
dreamed. Your statesmen--I will mention only a few of them: Pitt,
Bright, Gladstone--asserted repeatedly that the domestic and foreign
policy of this country should be founded on Christian principles. Your
women are famous in the world because of the fine and humane education
that they give to their children in order to make every new generation a
new proof to the world of how this island is obviously worthy of its
great role on our planet. Your working people possess a healthy sense of
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