42 RIGHT REV. BISHOP E. GRAHAM INGHAM, D.D., ON 



seeing to-day many parts of those same Scriptures largely dis- 

 credited by higher critics. 



The great majority of the Nation is standing aloof from 

 Institutional Christianity, and trade disputes are threatening 

 us with national bankruptcy ! 



Now everything depends on what we are, and on the use we make 

 in the coming time of the wide roads that go out to all lands. 

 They were given us, not for selfish uses, but to extend the Kingdom 

 of our Lord. 



A small part of the Nation only has any real faith in this 

 propaganda ! 



But there are some good signs. The Prince of Wales's personal 

 visits to the Empire have well won for him the title of " Our 

 Greatest Ambassador." There is little doubt that our British 

 Throne has remained secure in the midst of a period of wreckage 

 of Thrones through the gracious personalities of the reigning 

 house ! 



It happened to the writer of this paper to hear, from the 

 Strangers' Gallery of the House of Lords, a remarkable speech 

 when the Prince of Wales was born. Lord Rosebery was seconding 

 an address of congratulation to Queen Victoria on the event. 

 He took occasion to trace the decline of monarchical power in 

 this country through successive reigning houses. " But," 

 he said, " what has been lost in power has been more than 

 regained in royal influence. And that influence has been 

 won through the manifold ways in which the Sovereign 

 moves amongst and makes himself one with the people." 



I once had the opportunity of telling the Prince about this 

 great speech, of which he said he had never heard, and which 

 appeared to interest him. It has already been prophetic ! 

 He has come back from Australia just now bidding us " PuU 

 together and pull through ! " 



Perhaps, as one who belongs by birth to one of those parts 

 of the Empire that grew up when the Homeland was absent- 

 minded, you will allow me, after fifty years now in the Mother 

 Country, to point out that, while thankful for our Prince, we 

 must not be satisfied with anything short of a national awakening 

 to our unprecedented responsibilities. 



The time when to be a colonist was regarded as belonging 

 to a " lesser breed," has probably passed away. But in days 

 like these, when strong racial instincts and national ideals are 

 newly asserting themselves in many quarters, it behoves English- 



