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The Prime Minister's Speeches We must add a few lines about the character of the Prime Minister's reception in America. He arrived at New York in the Berengaria " on Friday, October 4th. New York, always a little jealous of the greater official import- ance of Washington, was delighted to have the opportunity of organizing the first reception, and the popular demon- stration at once struck a note of warmth and excitement which was never afterwards absent from Mr. MacDonald's public appearances and even became intensified. Mr. MacDonald's spoken words ha' e diiplayed a corn- bination of simplicity and dignity which carried one's memory back to the religious faith and verbal majesty of Abraham Lincoln who had nourished both on the Authorized Version of the Bible. If Mr. MacDonald had studied the American. public all his life he could not have done better than to say, as he did in New York, " Our two flags, wherever the work of God is to be done in this world, will be side by side in the doing of that work. We shall be pledged to each other, straining our ears to listen to the call, competitive in nothing except to see which is to be the first of us to open the way to successful issues."
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