American Good Will to Great Britain the International Council of Congregationalists at Boston, despite the almost uniform excellency of speaking and deliberations, did not produce any movement which is likely to change the trend of the denominational history. But the British delegates returned with something better than revolutionary inspirations—the remembrance of an affectionate greeting from nearly 3,000 delegates representative of every area of the Republic and of almost every type of its mind and citizenship. We were welcome, of course, as members of the same fellowship of faith; but it was soon evident that our American friends took us, though unworthy, as representatives of Britain, and the enthusiasm of their g greeting was intended for the} land from which we came.
It found stately expression in the utterances of the American orators. They praised us as the Spaniards praised Sir Richard Grenville, with a courtly grace," and touched us with their humility as—they spoke of all Britain had done in the Great War for the liberty of both the Old and the New Worlds. Every expression of goodwill drew the cheering of the vast meetings, and any speaker, however dull, had only to picture some future era of ce-operation between the two peoples to rekindle the spirit of the most depressed assembly.
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