UNITY AND PEACE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 152, 18 June 1908, Page 3

UNITY AND PEACE.

SPEECH AT PILGRIMS' BANQUET. Ht'ElTi ;- ' ; • London, June 11!. Lord C'urzon, presiding at the Pilgrims' banquet, in connection with the Pan-Anglican Congress, proposed »be tout of "The King and President Roosevelt." He remarked that no two men had exercised a more powerful inflnence or appealed more forcibly to t'.c better instincts of mankind. Mr. 11. Asquitb, Premier, in proposing "Our Guests," said it would he a lost opportunity if such a unique assemblage as the Pan-Anglican Congress Mire allowed to separate without contributing to that better mutual understanding between men and the growth of tb it common corporate Sense of ■which, was the V-st safeguard of the peace of the world. He was not referring to the matter at present as a politician. Treaties and understandings were happily year by year inininii-iii;: the risks aid narrowing the areas < f possible contention, but it was far more important that there should be an increasing disposition among peoples to know and understand one another." Mr. Aaquith added: "The Church d'. »troy*d slavery. She proclaimed thai property, privileges, and fortune wen not a freehold, but were held in trust and she might still, if she used her 011 jxirtuuities and lived up to the height : her mandate, share the task of e.\pcili:i; the greatest scourge threatening li" unity and progress of mankind.'' The Bishop of Missouri and the Artii bishop of KujK-rtsland res)ionded.