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Search - John Bull's Land - Through A Telescope - From A Canadian Point Of View

John Bull's Land Through A Telescope From A Canadian Point Of View
Author: Anon

PREFACE. A FEW weeks ago I stood in the reserve room of the Bank of England, in the midst of forty-seven million pounds sterling. One of the officials, in a kindly way, put some Bank notes into my hand, with the very pleasant remark, You can now say that a million pounds sterling passed through your hands to-day. But as I stood there I was impre... more »ssed with the fact that, while money has its high use, the mere accurnulation of it will not save the nation. I stood again, this time in St. Pauls. I was thrilled in the presence of the mighty dead. But I said, l Neither in these do we find a national Saviour. A day later I sat as a worshipper in Westminster Abbey. I partook of i the Communion of the Lords Supper. 1, But this time I was not thrilled by the I I thought of Britains great ones their splendour faded away into obscurity in the presence of the Divine-human light of THE W of Galilee-Carpenter, Redeemer, Eternal Lord. Enlightened thereby let us be brave to teach the people of Britain to break their shackles, and to stand forth in the true liberty of the Christ manhood. Noble men are engaged in this noble work. If this little book, written in txe free, unconventional spirit of the prairie, but contribute anything to that end, it will have served the purpose of THE AUTHOR. is the greatest dis covery of. recent times. But occasionaIly when I think I have said a good thing, or coined a fine phrase, - I find that some other yahoo has said it before me. That may be the way now. Did the Lord Bishop of London fist say it Or our own placid Sir Wilfred It could not have been our friend Carnegie, for he is too busily engaged letting his left hand know what his right hand is doing. But no matter Ill be honest about it, though maybe if I wo, uld hold my tongue about the other fellow, and yell like all-possessed on my own score, I might finally come to get at least a certain amount of credit. And in this I might only be following the example of persons who are more widely known. However, I will say this, that the statement, Canada is the greatest discovery of recent times, is just as true as if I myself had first said it. Some prominent Englishmen, in cluding, I believe, the aforesaid Bishop, tell us that Canada will yet be the greatest part of the combination that goes to make up the British Empire, and probably the greatest nation in the whole wide world. We Canadians have no doubt of it. They even tell us that the seat of government may yet be removed from Zpndon to Ottawa. As a native Canadian I would look upon that as too mean for us to consider. I have always had too much love antl respect for my father, after all he has done for me, too much of the spirit of fair play, to take the crown from his head because I have grown to be bigger than he. However, in the very nature of things, the fathers ideas will yet be greatly modified by the opinion of his grown-up boys, while they will be helped by his greater experience...

ISBN-13: 9781408635377
ISBN-10: 1408635372
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 210
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Book Type: Paperback
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