. In old Quebec and other sketches. and Malta,and mingles with the sound of the morninggun at Gibraltar. It passes over the Atlanticand asserts Britains rule at Honduras, andawakens the sleepers in the West Indies, andfrom the fortifications of old Quebec it vibratesover the river St. Lawrence. But of all theplaces which hear it, which of them can com-pare with the last, our own Canada, the landof our adoption or our nativity. Canada withher vast extent of territory. Canada with herverdant spring and glowing summer, hergorgeous autumn and bracing winter. Canadawith her fertile soil and salubri
. In old Quebec and other sketches. and Malta,and mingles with the sound of the morninggun at Gibraltar. It passes over the Atlanticand asserts Britains rule at Honduras, andawakens the sleepers in the West Indies, andfrom the fortifications of old Quebec it vibratesover the river St. Lawrence. But of all theplaces which hear it, which of them can com-pare with the last, our own Canada, the landof our adoption or our nativity. Canada withher vast extent of territory. Canada with herverdant spring and glowing summer, hergorgeous autumn and bracing winter. Canadawith her fertile soil and salubrious clime, herabundant cereal productions and prodigiousmineral resources. Canada with her fur-bearing animals and her inexhaustible fish-eries, her boundless forests and magnificentharbours. Canada with her Dominion Par-liament and her Provincial Legislatures, herhonoured statesmen and unsullied with her liberty of conscience andsplendid system of education, her patriarchalsires and brave sons and fair daughters, is. 01 < X. Z o AND OTHER SKETCHES. 83 one of the brightest gems that sparkles andflashes in King Edwards diadem ! To-day she proudly points to Britain, Franceand Ireland, as the mother countries ; and hersons are safe under the old flag which her fore-fathers often followed to battle and we are looking forward to a time when allthe British possessions containing as they domore than a million square miles and em-bracing a quarter of the world inhabitants,shall be bound together still more indissolublythan they are now ; and yet as a result ofsuch federation, each one of them shall enjoya greater measure of independence than atpresent. We are looking farther forward yeteven to a time when all who speak the Anglo-Saxon tongue shall find their chief rivalry inteaching the nations * to learn war no more,in promoting the reign of peace and good will;in leading the heathen to the foot of theCross where alone they can hide their sin andshame, and
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