PEACE OF THE WOULD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13779, 18 June 1908, Page 5

PEACE OF THE WOULD.

INFLUENCE OF THE CHURCH. SPEECH BY MR. ASQUITH. By Telegraph.—Press Association.— London, June 16. Lord Curzox, presiding at the Pilgrim Club's banquet, proposed the health of the King and President Roosevelt, remarking that no two had exercised a more powerful influence on, or appealed more forcibly to, the better instincts of mankind. Mr. Asquith, in proposing " Our Guests," said that it would be a lost opportunity if such a unique assemblage as the Pan-Anglican Congress should separate without contributing to that better mutual understanding between men, the growth of that common corporate sense of i: oneness," which was the best safe-. guard of the peace of the world. He was not referring to the present, as political treaties and understandings were happily year by year minimising risks and narrowing the arc of possible contention. Far more important as a settled influence, the Prime Minister continued, was the increasing disposition of peoples to know and understand one another. The. Church had destroyed slavery and proclaimed that property, privilege, and fortune, were not a freehold, but a trust, and she might still, if she used her opportunities'and' lived up to the, height of her mandate, share in the task of expelling the greatest scourge threatening the unity and progress of mankind. Bishop Tattle, of Missouri. U.S.A., and Archbishop Mathesou, of Rupert's Land, Canada, responded.