It is a lesson for us in these Foreign Settlements. We are thrown together with people of other nationalities, as our friends at home are not. We can show our Christianity in imitation of Irving. He would have been a model for these Settlements, had he Rived among us. I am inclined to think that, in my 20 odd years in China, the various nationalities have drawn further apart, not nearer together, which is a pity. There was more united life and activity then than now. Now we all seem to want everything of our own.
Finally. There is the world we live in. Tt needs all kind of things. Statesmen are at their wits' end. Tt nesds money and extensive repairs in all denattments of life. But there is one thing that it needs most. That is cood-will, the spirit of this good Irving, who had "no place for bitterness in his heart" for friend or foe; who saw the good there is in us when we were fighting his country. If we cannot learn this lesson, and practise it og he did, the rehabilitation of Europe will pass the wit of man te bring about. There is no scheme for the revival of Europe and other places, too, than this that St. Paul learnt from the Lord. "And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God also in Christ forgave you."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.