When, after a long sea voyage with his wife and family, Sir Austen.
Chamberlain, Secretary of State for: Fore felt, J may be far from my native hearth, but still at home, On all sides T have met with the kindest and the heartiest of welcomes, and T have seemed 4 races, s0 Tittle does the change of country affect the personity of the people. of Polities take to myself in full of the kind words of praise that the president of the uni versity spoke, but I have given some forty years of service to the public life of the old country, and 1 hypo that, when my career ends, it. will be felt by my countrymen, both at home and beyond the seas, that T have not disgraced the name which was well-known to then before, Politics have always been fter my first childhood years tare those of discussions on matters first of municipal and then of national, and then of Imperial interest. Tt was borne in upon me by my father that those who had the leisure land the means owed service to the country in which they were born and which gave them shelter and security, and 1 know of no nobler veers that any man may adopt, however short he may fall of his leals and wishes of attainment, than that of a public knight, devoted to the political service of his country.
The president of the university (id something of the work in which have been engaged in later years. May therefore say that it has been happy coincidence that brings me to Toronto at the same time as the Ambassador of France to the United States and causes us both to receive our degrees on the same day, for 1 believe in. my heart of hearts that, upon the close friendship, of our two races, on which the fore tune of the Dominion of Cana self ly hinged, rests now the peace of Europe. It is upon the basis of this friendship that we have laid the foundation for our common reconciliation with Germany, and it is in the harmony of these great Powers and of those other nations. that ce-operate with us that the beat chance lies of avoiding a repetition fof the catastrophe through which we have gone.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.