THE WORLD’S PEACE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2220, 18 June 1908, Page 3

THE WORLD’S PEACE.

UNITY OF NATIONS.

MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN MEIN. ;

United Press Association. Copyright LONDON, June 16. Lord Cur/xiti, presiding, a t the Pilgrims’ banquet, toasted tho Ring and President Roosevelt, remarking that no two had exercised a more powerful influence or appealed more forcibly to the better instincts of mankind. Mr. Asquith, proposing “Our •Guest,” said that it would be Vi lost opportunity if such an unique-assem-blage ns the Pan : Anghcan Congress should; fiCpu'rflto without contributing to that better mutual understanding between men, anti the growth of that common corporate sense of oneness which was the best safeguard of the peace of the world. He was not. referring to the present as "i politician. Treatic' and .understandings were happily year by year minimising risks. Tli'e narrowing of the areas of posniblo contention was far more important as the settled influence was increasing the disposition'of the peoples to know and gain an understanding of one another. He added: ‘lhe flhurch has destroyed slavery, and proclaimed that property, privilege, and fortune were not a freehold, but tnu~:t, and she might still, if she iiaed her opportunities and lived up t<> the height ofthe mandate,; share the risk of ■ expelling the greatest scourge threatening the unity and progress of mankind.” . The Bishop of Missouri and the Archbishop of Rupert’s Land responded.