A NATION'S STRENGTH.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 901, 22 August 1910, Page 8

A NATION'S STRENGTH.

- During the course. of a; very interesting address delivered in the Unitarian' Church last evening Miss Mary Richmond spoke of the fighting force of the world. .Agnation's strength apparently lay hvher army'and'her navy, DUt behind it all; was that < religion.' The religion .'of an individual was. whatever that -individual loved most in tho world, what:he was.willing to live for, and if need arose,'; willing to die for, and'it Vas in,.this that the strength and backbone of'.al'hatioh. laj\ In its care for the weak ahd'the suffering, in the.:aittention.it paid to the children—the little men -wnoidw.ill one day be'itsbig men —the/'nation is 'building up its strength in the', future. The love of tlie Japanese' for their children and above all, for Japan itself,has made if the country that it is'today and given it the place'it how holds among the nations of -the- world. Miss Richmond spoke of the Labour* Government of Australia, how, ..in. spite of' the fact that. it. was a democratic one, it was yet'an Imperial democracy because in time of- war it would, give its Services to Great Britain: and fight for her. ' President,. Roosevelt,.,. when in England a short while ago,"'spoke of what a baleful thing s'ohtim'piitality was, and upon being taken 'fo:-task about the matter said -that, a- man.-..without sentiment was "not Worth .'his salt, but a sentimental man was''a man to be shunned—or..words to that effect. It is not sentimentality!, to. cafe, for,.children, or to- fight ..for .what; onefcols' is right and true. _ ... . ~,.,,. -.- '. ! '1 ; '■ "'i