MOTHER OF NATIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 28, 2 June 1915, Page 4

MOTHER OF NATIONS.

! | In the light of present day happen- I ! ings some words el' Emerson may well I | he recalled. He says: "I feel >, ie- | gard to this aged England, witJi the I possessions, honours, and trophies, and also with the infirmities oi' a thousund years gathering around her, I irretrievably committed as she now is j to many old customs which cannot he suddenly changed; pres-el rpon by the transitions oi' tracts, and new ;ind all incalculable modes, fjbrics.l arts, machines, and compeViig populations— 1 see her not dispirited, not weak, hut well remembering that she lias seen dark days hei'o.-- ; indeed, with a* kind, of instinct thac she sees a little better in a cloudy day. and that in storm of battle and calamity! she has a secret vigour and a pvl r .o : like cannon. 1 see her in he: cMj age. not decrepit, but young, and still' daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this. I I say. All hail. Mother of \ations.' i Mother of Heroes, with strength still equal to the time; still wise to entertain and swift to execute the policy , which the mind and heart of man- , kind require at the present hour, and thus only hospitable to the foreigner, and' truly a home to the thoughtful and generous. who are horn in the soil. 80 lie it! So let if be!"