BRITAIN AND THE DOMINIONS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1972, 31 January 1914, Page 9

BRITAIN AND THE DOMINIONS.

% NEW YEAR JIESSAGEv ; 'As chairman of the. Colonial Missionary Society, of which lie has Ikkui for; thirty years a director, Dr. Lnjvson/ Forstor'eonds a message of ''good Irishes end erecting" to its Mends in tho Overseas JJomtnionS. Writing ss <tn y optimist, Bi\ Forstc-r ospffissos his be-\ lie. that "never we.ro tiiw Ohrisfem. Chiiretms' of Britain more jnto-iisoly iit.j eaWicst, «cjr mors, efficiently equipped:,' for tlioif work tlntu at the present day." 1 On tiro ether tiiwd; "Never wero tlioj difficulties in tho-wtt-y of suJFituul gress nioro. fovmidabfe tlmii jiowv . . -i Yet, despite all hiiidfaUccS, our Clrarcjios! thronßhoirtr theso islands aro still doiftgi n nobla ivark, and many of them «)'s« : being blessed with a ]tii:g6 measvire cit-, prosperity, 2vai' has fljo- mtcrest in.:' Colonial 'and 'JForcigii Missions in Miyfj way abated. In fact, gCnofally spoak-; iii" , , our Cqitgroftiittoniu chvtrclies aro> tahini? a wider owtloo.1; tlian ever, and) lusvo greato sympathy with tho. regions beyond than even n, fetv yoare ago. Oi.ir colonics are l}euvK • recogiiis(Kl aa the Whitest and inost hopoful parts i o£ .tlio aivd as .rin expression 1 of oar faith in their fu-tn.ro wo arc sendin? an •ov(M;-inercnsiivg stroaiii of olir luiikst and "best ■Wβ to swell tifto tWo. of ttieir prosperity." . , Dr. l'Vstci , has si clicory word for "auh of , the Oveispiiß Bcmitnwns, but ha i adds; "To tlio Churches of Oftiiada,I among which 1 spent sonic of ■.th.o brightest «iid most joyous years of my life., -I BPttd special jrersmwl greetings, .as woll as- tlie salutations of our brethren, of tho Colonial Society. Tho l-rninding succcsi? of the Ri'ca't Dominion, tlio,vastness of its territory, nnd its almost limitless resources, .prosont ; a lnost-at-tractiro pieturo to tho world. ,A& we dip into tho future aiid thittk of what Canada may be : a hundred years hence, wo cannot' refrain from urging upon, brethren tlio importance of jnajsjng.thc. most of tiieiv goldon njiportunities in tho groat work (if helping to lii.y. th* fdnndfttians of the roli#sms :lifo Of. their Croat tOWrtry firm Mid s'utis;