A GLORIOUS MISSION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 227, 18 June 1908, Page 7

A GLORIOUS MISSION.

THE CHURCH AND PEACE. . ' TWO REMARKABLE SPEECHES. BRITAIN-AND AMERICA. BT TELE3BAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTKIQBt London, June 16. Lord Curzon, presiding at the Pilgrims' Banquet in London, proposed the toast of "Tho King and President Roosevelt," remarking that no two mon had exercised , a more powerful influence, or appealed more forcibly to tho better instincts of mankind. Mr. Asquith (Prime Minister), in proposing "Our Guest 3," said it would bo a lost opportunity if such a unique assemblage as the Pan-Anglican Congress should separate without contributing to that bettor mutual understanding between men and the growth of that common corporate sense of oneness, which was the best safeguard of tho peace of the world. He was not speaking at present as a politician. Treaties and understandings were happily year by year minimising tho risks and narrowing the areas of possible contentiori. Far more important as a settled influence was the increasing disposition of peoples to know and understand one another. Tho Prime Minister added that tho Church had destroyed slavery and had proclaimed that property, privilege, and fortune were not freehold, but a trust; and she might still, if she used her opportunities and lived up to tho height of her mandate, share the task of expelling . tho • greatest scourge threatening the unity and progress of mankind. Tho Bishop of Missouri (United States), Dr. D. S. Tuttle, and the Archbishop of Rupertsland (Canada), Dr. S. P. Matheson, responded.