Brothers, we are entering on stirring times.

I can see the signs of their coming all around us.

North and South--the Old Order and the New, are about to clash, and we lie between the opposing forces.

True it is that the Turk, after warring for a thousand years, is fading into insignificance.

But from the North where conquests spring, have crept towards our Balkans the men of a mightier composite Power.