AMERICA'S WAR SACRIFICES.
[To THE EDITOR Of THE " SPECTATOR."] Stu,—To the deep delight, I feel sure, of all your English readers, the Spectator is so seriously interested in every sign of a good understanding between America and Great Britain that I think you will be glad to place on record an incident which was reported last week at the Wesleyan Conference in Hull. The speaker was the Rev. Frederick L. Wiseman, B.A., of London, an ex-President of the Conference. Three months ags, as the official delegate of British Wesleyan Methodists, he attended at Des Moines the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America. He said that the Assembly, which impressed him as big-bodied, big-brained, and big- hearted, seemed typically unaware of what the British nation had gone through in the war. They made it easy for him to point out a fact whis h surprised and startled them—that no fewer than 25,643 of their own co-religionists alone, the Wesleyan Methodists of Great Britain, had laid down their lives in the Great War, and that this was about all their great American nation had lost. The fact touched the fatherly heart of the Conference, and he never heard another word of America's war sacrifices, splendid as they had been. It mey be refreshing to add that Mr. Wiseman, visiting Boston, observed on one side of the State House the dear old lion and unicorn, as well as the eagle.on U. other side. That happy symbol signified that America and Great Britain would together watch for and work for the peace of the world.—I am, Sir, &c.,
Wesley Manse, Canterbury.
J. EDWARD HARLOW.
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