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may be said, "the Church of the future, 

 whatever may be its domiuant character- 

 istics, will be free from the tint and taint 

 of any merely national characteristics." 



But at this point there salute us certain 

 significant facts which we cannot wholly 

 ignore. One of them relates to what Dr. 

 Bushnell called the out-populating power 

 of Anglo-Saxon Christendom, especially 

 since the days of the Reformation. The 

 other day, in London, a civic corporation 

 gave a dinner to the governor of the British 

 Colony of Queensland. The banquet was 

 co-inciclent with that explosion of Ameri- 

 can hostility to Great Britain to which I 

 may not more particularly allude ; and one 

 of its most conspicuous guests was the Colo- 

 nial Secretary of the English Government. 

 In a speech made on that occasion Mr. 

 Chamberlain alluded to the stress which 

 had been laid in public criticisms of Eng- 

 land's foreign policy upon what had been 

 called the "isolation of England," and 

 remarked, not, I apprehend, without a 

 somewhat pardonable complacency : " The 

 statement of our adversaries is quite true. 

 England is an isolated power ; but she has 

 always thriven upon her isolation. She is 



