like meeting ourselves; you are we, and we are you; whether you be the sons of Englishmen, Scotchmen, Irishmen, Welshmen, wherever you come from, you are Canada, and Canada-why, that is Britain. (Applause) We shall never forget you and the part you played, your own great heroic part; we shall never forget the tragedy and the glory of Canada's part. Your sons fought and suffered and died. Many lie in yonder graves; some of us have seen them; they dot yonder Western front; they are your memorials; you will keep them in most loving and reverential affection.

We can recall the sweep of your great movement over the tides. Your boys seemed to blow the earth-fog over the waves in their eagerness to cross and obey the call of the Old Mother who summoned her Children from afar. Your cities emptied themselves, and your wide spaces gave up their boys. It needs not that I should speak a word of Canada; Canada's story is part of the great epoch of the war, her story is part of the annals of that great conflict that has changed the courses of the tides of civilization. You need not explain your part; it stands amidst the perpetual records in the greatness and the glory and the grandeur of it.

One day I was talking to a number of black boys, coloured gentlemen in France; they were gunners, and most excellent fighting men. I was-I don't know that you would call it preaching to them-but we were talking together, and in the midst of our talk I turned to one of the blackest of them-he was as black as my coat-and I said, "What is your name?" and like a shot, he replied, "Duncan McIntyre." (Great laughter) I said, "Oh, Caledonia, she has placed her marks upon all civilization; the ends of the earth come to her and claim her!" I said, "Duncan McIntyre, put it there, brother; blood is thicker than water.” (Great laughter)

I am glad for the call of the blood. We have looked into your eyes, Gentlemen, as we have gone abroad over your great continent, and whether in Canada or the United States, and wherever we have seen you, east or west, north or south, do you know, we can see the very

soul looking out of your eyes; and we carry sometimes in our faces, and we carry in our hearts, something of the vision of the mountain and the glen and the rushing torrent. You hear in our voices the accents of the home tongue that you have never forgotten even though your stay in Canada or in the United States has been long. And we look into your faces, you men of Canada, and read the great tale you have to tell, the tale of the journey over the deep, the tale of the vast endeavour that built these great cities. You have the tale of the pioneer in your eyes, the tale of the long trek, and the great adventure you Englishmen and Scotchmen and Welshmen and Irishmen. You and we represent Britannia— Britannia marching out to the very ends of the earth encompassing the wide spaces, forging new shapes, moulding new civilizations; and so we belong to one another, and I would say, "Put it there." (Loud applause) It matters not where Britannia's sons wander; somehow the old home-call is there.

We carry a message. You will give to us new notes to that message, and I believe, after all, that which joins us is not policies and not politics, not schemes of gain. Brethren, I think we are joined by something more sacred than that. I remember hearing Robertson of the West telling a story when he came over to Britain. He said that, in his journeying over the wide spaces, it was his duty to gather the outpost families into fellowshipfarmers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan and Alberta. When word came that Robertson was to hold a meeting, somewhere from the lonely shacks, ten or twenty or perhaps fifty miles, they came and trekked along the trail. They gathered from the distances to meet Robertson, who would read in the little shack, perhaps this Psalm:

I joyed when to the House of God,
Go up, they said to me;

Jerusalem, within thy gates

Our feet shall standing be.
Jerusalem as a city is

Compactly built together

And to that place the tribes go up,
The tribes of God go thither.

And Robertson said he would not be through the reading till, here and there and yonder, an old man or an old woman would break into tears and cry at the music of the psalm. They wept at the music of the sacred song. It brought up Jerusalem-Jerusalem of God, this building with foundations in Canada and in Britain, and wherever the wondrous Anglo-Saxon speech is spoken, or wherever the sons of earth cry out their wistful yearnings to Almighty God, that is Britannia.

And after all, that is what binds us. We leave you, and we pray and hope-I am sure it is true-somehow of seeing Him who is invisible. You break the Bread of Life with us. Brethren, we have eaten that bread and we have drunk that cup. It is a mystic cup, that unseen business amongst the nations of them whom Christ has bought. We shall continue to eat it, the bread, the fellowship, the comradeship and love. It is the cup of the

nations, and we shall drink that mystic cup of fellowship, and by that sign, that wondrous sign, we are held together until He appears unto whom is the gathering of the nations. (Applause)

The President expressed the thanks of the Club to the several speakers.

WORLD CONSPIRACY AGAINST
ANGLO-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP

AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BY JOHN A. STEWART, LL.D.
Before the Empire Club of Canada, Toronto,
Thursday, February 19, 1920

VICE-PRESIDENT GILVERSON, after referring to the absence of President Hewitt through illness, introduced the Speaker of the day in the following terms,--In the former days we used to speak of the white man's burden as a responsibility for the protection of the black and brown races; but that was before we had discovered that there was a yellow race domiciled in the central areas of the European Continent. To-day the white man's burden is recognized, I think universally, to be the pacification of a turbulent world; and this heavy load seems to be by circumstances properly placed upon the shoulders of the Anglo-Saxon Race. It is truly a burden for ,white men. It therefore seems to be of the very utmost importance that the relationship existing between the different portions of the Anglo-Saxon world should be of the frankest and the freest and the best. With these thoughts in our mind, it seems most appropriate that we should have the opportunity to welcome to our midst a gentleman from the United States of America. (Applause)

Dr. John A. Stewart of New York, our guest, has made this subject his own. He is a distinguished Doctor of Laws of our own University of Toronto, a student of international politics, who has devoted his splendid talents to the promotion of every movement of importance looking to the fostering of friendship between the English speaking nations, focussing his activities in the Sulgrave Institution, of which, he is one of the founders.

I have very great pleasure, therefore, in introducing Dr. Stewart of New York.

DR. JOHN A. STEWART

Mr. Chairman, and you my fellow members of the New York Lawyers' Club, Sir William and Sir Edmund (referring to Sir William Mulock and Sir Edmund Walker),-These times are such that, if I were a member of the Established Church and were to write a prayer invoking the blessing of Almighty God on the work of Anglo-American friendship, I should say "Oh! God, preserve me from mine enemies, and particularly preserve me from myself-my own weaknesses and my own prejudices"; for, if there ever was a time in the history of the Anglo-Saxon Celtic world, it is to-day that we should be exemplars to the earth, and that patience and forbearance should be the great elements in international relations. (Applause) Without patience and forbearance, my friends, we are simply playing into the hands of our enemies.

We are face to face with some of the most powerful reactionary influences that ever cursed the world, and they are directed at what? Against us as individuals? No, because we are too valuable as purchasers of commodities, and American money and Canadian money and British money is of too good a use as grease to make the wheels of commerce move throughout the world. It is because of that which we represent-the underlying idea of the Anglo-Saxon Celtic world, which is that of liberty under law, and law tempered by justice and made glorious by mercy. (Applause) It is because of those great Anglo-Saxon Celtic Institutions-free speech, liberty of conscience, separation of Church and State, and those peculiar and British ways of doing things which relate to the Anglo-Saxon Celtic idea: in other words, it is our outlook upon life and what we mean to the world, because what we mean to the world is inimical to those great reactionary influences which oppose us to-day.