"Night came and there was no pass. The man from the American legation said, as we went home, 'I will make one more try in the morning and will let you know by ten o'clock.' "That next morning will memory. To go or not to go.

I

remain ever in my I confess that there was a strong feeling of homesickness. Alone in my room, my mind travelled across the wide ocean. thought of my brave little wife, toiling to keep going my work in Jersey City; of all the men who had been converted from the wreckage of sin; of my children. I thought of the glorious land of the Stars and Stripes.

"At first I was down-hearted but, at last, I opened my mouth and sang:

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"My Country, 'tis of thee,

Sweet land of Liberty.'

Again and again I sang it and then I started on 'The Star Spangled Banner.' And, when I was about half-way through, a messenger came from the American legation with the tidings that my passage had been granted.

“That night I was in Rotterdam once more. My cablegram to my wife brought a reply at once and I was happy."

XIV

What Europe Thinks of America

When men shall trust in God and not in fate,
When love shall rise from out the grave of hate,
When charity shall take the place of greed,
When every man his neighbor's rights shall heed,
When naught but honest labor wins the prize,
When vice no more is clothed in virtue's guise,
When justice is obtained without deceit,
When every race shall like as brothers meet,
When "Covet Not" becomes the law of man,
When pity lifts up those beneath the ban,
Then war and conflict shall forever cease,
And once again resound the psalm of peace.

-Antoinette Luques.

10 the sojourner in Europe, in these bewildering days, one of the most interesting studies must be that of the attitude of the people of the various countries towards America and the administration of President Wilson.

In Holland for seven weeks, Major Winchell had ample time to read or to have translated the papers from Germany, Holland, France and England. Their eagerness in banking on every word uttered by the President was at once evident. Of course, he might have said many things to throw either

warring element into an ugly mood but they were very happy when he did anything for the furtherance of neutrality.

No American in history, it appeared to the Major, has loomed so great as has Wilson. Assuredly the wise and courageous stand taken by him at all the breaking points affecting international relations, yet keeping us out of the war, establishes the name of Woodrow Wilson as that of the greatest of all Americans. Were he honorably and successfully to bring America through his term without embroilment in Europe, as he has done thus far, and not be reëlected, he will be to posterity ten thousand times a greater figure, in the Major's judgment, than if, at the behest of popular clamor, he should have plunged the country into war and been reëlected. What other president has been brought so closely in contact with all the nations, both belligerent and neutral?

While Winchell was in London, the papers all over England printed the story of how the President, during one of the very trying ordeals when the destiny of America hung in the balance, called together his cabinet and said: "Gentlemen, I do not know how many of you find time to pray but I feel that it is proper to-day to ask for divine guidHe knelt and each member followed while the President offered prayer. This incident was enlarged upon in almost every Sunday sermon in the churches and was the theme of conversation everywhere.

ance."

It is fitting to relate a story of the President's note to England in November, 1915, regarding the rights of our shipping on the seas, which was impressed upon the Major by a somewhat unpleasant episode. He had arranged to visit a certain hospital upon the very day when this note was printed in the papers. The press, as a matter of course, gave a grunt of disdain.

The superintendent of the institution told the visitor how greatly he regretted this act of our President, as he deemed Mr. Wilson a friend to the Allies. Major Winchell replied that the President was not chosen by the American people to represent either one side or the other; he was chosen to represent America. After this exchange of words, the Major asked to see the institution. He was gently led to the door and shown the moving traffic of a busy London street.

The American was in Germany when the attachés, von Papen and Boy-Ed, were given their transports to return to that country. The press there was very severe in criticism of this act of the President. Conversing with prominent German business men, the Major tried to explain why the President had been compelled to take such a step. They replied: "We do not know all the facts which we fear are withheld by the censor. President Wilson is truly a brave man and a wise and well-beloved executive."

In Holland, the traveller used to stand before the newspaper bulletins trying to decipher the

Dutch and, in this way, met all sorts of men. Those who could translate, he would ask for their opinions of America and its President and they would answer: "If only President Wilson can keep America out of this war it means our peace, and possibly Holland's national existence depends upon it as well."

Throughout the length and breadth of this appalling crisis which has overwhelmed all Europe and threatened repeatedly to disturb the serenity of the rest of the world, pagan and Christian alike, our President has stood consistently not so much for peace at any price but for righteousness at all hazards. His brave interpretation of international law has been a model for mankind and his demonstrations of its intricacies in undertaking to enforce the observance of such law have stamped him preeminently as the man of the hour.

From its ramified beginnings, the great war has been prolonged indefinitely by the self-assertiveness of militarism, the unwillingness of certain powers to bow before the prospect of such absolute autocracy. In the end The Hague tribunal must be strengthened appreciably in the formation of a new federation of nations, a coalition that shall fittingly represent the small as well as the great governments and that shall accomplish effective legislation backed by executive action, purposeful, powerful and in no measure uncertain.

Major Winchell on several occasions heard, while in Europe, this expression: "Which is the strongest