America's Greatness

iiesmem unuer, oí me xNew ü-nghuid Historic-Genological Society, in bis annual address quoted the exoression of eminent Englishme in regare to tbe greatness of América: When speaking of the greatness anc influence of our country, with its aspiratious, suggesiions and possibilities. Dean Stanley said: "It cannot be realized uutii touched by the actual sight of it. Then we fetjl tbat we are in the presence of one of tho.se great creative epocbs of nalious, a vast and heavenward inspirin destín y." "Wbat is America novv?" said Canon Farrar of England. "A mighty civilization, destined perhaps, to surpass our ovvn, a land of inimitable hopes, a lioundless continent! li glorious has been our legacy to her, glorious, too, have been her gifts to us." She has given us a type at once oi manliood, enthusiastie, practical, seli-Saorificing, prudent and godly." Kev. Dr Parker, of bondon, when speaking of our eounlrvflnd its institutions and possibillities, says: - "America is more thana continent, itis a little vvorld!" Mattlvrv Arnold, who is at present in tuis country, vhen speaking of its influence under TPuritan discipline, says: "It iias beeom! au incomparable and all-transforming remnant, and the eom?non topic of admiration for the worid." Mr. Gladstonc says, "I am proud of Aiacrica. Amerca has a territory litted to be Üie base of the lai-gest conlinuous empiro ever established by mar.." Lord Coleridge, when rccently here, ?aid: "I rejoice to sêe the independence and urospcrity of your middlo classes. It is not the immense size of your country that strikes me most. It is the bigness of that sentiment whioli has given its bost blood in vindication of human right. And Prof. Seely, of the Knglish Cambridge üntvTsrstty, says: "Ttiff-t'ntrert SiaVès" has solved the problem how, from a fringe of sottlement on the Atlantic, a wliolo continent as far as tho Paciüo may be peopleil and prosper under a united government. If the United States holds together for anothor half century, it will, at tbe end of that time, completely chango the condition of such old states as Franco and Germán v. "