MILLENNIUMS OF PEACE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1908, 17 November 1913, Page 3

MILLENNIUMS OF PEACE.

AMERICAN AMBASSADOR'S PRE•i DICTION. The United Stales Ambassador, Dr. • Pago:, njade an interesting speech at Toynbeo Hal]., London, at tho opening ■ of tli® new session of that institution. ' Toynbeo Hall, he remarked, was the first university settlement. So good an ■! idea, he was happy to say, was quickly taken by his countrymen. Ho amid . not gay they had bettered it, Jiut he. : would- say they had imitated ii. He ; i had himself been surprised to read that ; there were-now as many as 400 settlei meats in the United States. (Cheers.) ; - Every one of them h«d. spru»g from - that institution. That_ was the chief ! • reason of his pleasure in coming, and > in expressing to tho present reprcsenf. .tatives of Toynbeo Hall the gratitude aiid appreciation of his country for tlio idea. (CheeTs.) "When we foreigners eomo to liondon," lie continued, "there J are a number of things wo like to so&— Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's, the Na- [ tional Gallery, and, if you are fond of . horrors, the Tower, and Toynbeo Hall. I daresay you would find hardly one t intelligent person ill the United States J who •does not fcnow something of this 3 institution. Ho had read that at Pitts-. . burg that day tho National Federation 3 of Settlements were holdinga- memorial . service to the Into Canon Baruptt., tho ; . founder of tho Settlements., and tho late t, Warden of Toynbeo italic It Was to , express for his 'countrymen engaged in ■ j this work tho appreciation of that great man's Work that ho had. come thorp , ihst night. (Cheers.) Jh. Page eon--1 eluded with a reference to the hundred . years' peace between tho United States and England. There will, he said, be • millenniums of peace henceforth, it be--3 ing simply unthinkable that the same ®. great raco which lives en each side of . ' the ocean should ever so seriously dis- ; • agree as to think for one wild moment *7 of tho barbaric way in which difficulties s used io be settled. (Loud cheers.)