Show A A Century of Good Will One hundred and four fifty years ago explosive joy filled nany ny hearts throughout the American colonies of the British king The year before the invalid warrior Wolfe by heer will S power on a gamblers gambler's chance whether to make another fight or flee had risen from a bed of pain scaled the heights to the plain I of af Abraham beaten Montcalm and paved the way for the capture captureS I S of Quebec Frances France's e American Gibraltar 1 And now came the news that Amherst had forced the surrender i der of Montreal and and with it the utter downfall of French authority fl inthe in the new world S Bonfires s were kindled church bells sounded and oratory poured forth from a t thousand pulpits For did it not mean an end of savage butcheries safety for home and life and children prosperity p peace ace I In one of the New England villages a minister was moved It to 10 to prophecy Projecting g his vision a across rosH an interval of a cen cen- Y l 7 and a h half lf he foresaw a single nation ben beneath ath a single I K flag stretching to the Mississippi l on the west and and north to the arctic circle a n free and happy nation of people He missed it in the matter of geography and he understated by third the thc number of Still a people it wasn't a bad guess all things considered Closer probably than are most of th the prophecies today of what will be years hence Pretty soon we shall all be celebrating a century of good will win along a border line of miles without a cannon cano or a fort the fort the finest example of neighborliness that the world has thus far seen War STar did not stop on this continent with the expulsion of the French The peace that the New England dominie foresaw was soon to be he broken first by the revolution for independence and a little later for fair play on the tile sea But today following the century of peace the United States and Canada have not a cloud between them and in their very freedom freedom free free- dom darn from arms and armaments has been one of the great greatest st guarantees guarantees' of their mutual good will |