. My life-work;. d by them. That atmosphereenvelopes the European emigrant from the time he lands ; thecommon school forms his children into American citizens ; and inspite of the great intermixture of race and language, a real con-tinuity exists between the Pilgrim Fathers and the great bodyof the American people to-day. The Englishmen regarded withreverence in America to-day are Cromwell, Hampden, Milton,Bunyan, Penn and Robinson. Their spiritual ancestors are Calvinand Knox, Baxter and Howe, Wesley and Whitefield. You cannotvisit their churches without feeling the throbbing of the same life
. My life-work;. d by them. That atmosphereenvelopes the European emigrant from the time he lands ; thecommon school forms his children into American citizens ; and inspite of the great intermixture of race and language, a real con-tinuity exists between the Pilgrim Fathers and the great bodyof the American people to-day. The Englishmen regarded withreverence in America to-day are Cromwell, Hampden, Milton,Bunyan, Penn and Robinson. Their spiritual ancestors are Calvinand Knox, Baxter and Howe, Wesley and Whitefield. You cannotvisit their churches without feeling the throbbing of the same life,and even the large Roman Catholic ]wpulation that pours intoAmerica gets wonderfully liberalized, and a large proportion of itsdescendants ultimately passes into the Protestant genius of America is most unfavourable to priestly preten-sions, and I find that the closest observers in that country, menlike Dr. Josiah Strong, were more afraid of the wild immoral heresies a- r. S. > a- - 3i 9 ^ o 6z. FOURTH VISIT TO AMERICA 433 like Mormonism or Spiritualism, which were rapidly spreading inthe far west, than of priestly or sacerdotal domination. America has dangers of its own, different from those of Europe,and the chief one is the growth of anti-Christian and anti-socialmovements in that strange conglomerate of races which is fillingup the vast regions beyond the Mississippi. There is not in thesenew States that foundation of solid religious life laid by the Puri-tans in the Eastern States, and there is far more danger both politi-cally and socially in the trans-Mississippi region than in the old,settled States of the East. We received much hospitality in Washington. We were cour-teously entertained by President McKinley, himself a deeply-religious man, and were taken a delightful excursion up the Potomacto Mount Vernon, the picturesque home of Washington. We wit-nessed the triumphal reception of Admiral Dewey, fresh from hisvictory at Manila; and, above all, we
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