Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1896 — Very Consoling. [ARTICLE]

Very Consoling.

The festivities at the coming of age of the present Lord Hopetoun Included a service at the parish church, which was filled With members of the great Hope family and also members of the Hope clan. The feelings oMlie congregation thus composed can be imagined when the minister began bis discourse with the words: “My brethren, the world 1b full of blasted hopes.*