True patriotism was instanced by the banished Jew, made cup-bearer to a heathen king, the man who sat down and wept when he learned that the walls of his beloved capital were broken down and the gates thereof burned with fire: the man who worked as well as wept; who inspired his compatriots and rebuilt the walls and gates of the city--trowel in one hand and sword in the other. “So built we the wall ... for the people had a mind to work.” Then the Primate turned to the wonderful story of the first Babylon. He spoke of the king who dreamed dreams wherewith his spirit was troubled, dreams that could only be interpreted--not by court magicians and astrologers--by the servant of One who changeth the times and seasons, removeth kings, giveth wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding. He alone “revealeth the deep and secret things and knoweth what is in the darkness.” Who should dare to say, demanded the Archbishop, that even now, in the twentieth century, the vision of the eastern king was not receiving fresh fulfilment--that mystical vision of the kingdom of gold, the kingdom of brass, and the kingdom of iron--iron that was mixed with miry clay? The king whose dreams troubled him had many warnings. When he set up his golden idol on the plain of Dura, he was warned. In his rage and fury with the Jews who dared to disobey him, he cast the three righteous men into the seven-fold heated furnace, and lo! he saw four men walking loose in the midst of the fire, unhurt; and the form of the fourth was like the Son of God. Thus was he warned again. So when the heart of Nebuchadnezzar was lifted up, and his mind hardened, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him. And Belshazzar his son, he, too, was warned by that mysterious writing on the wall. In that same night was he slain and Darius took the kingdom. And the prophet himself had visions of the future, visions of nation fighting against nation; of the four winds of heaven striving upon the great sea; of the four great beasts that came up from the sea, diverse from each other--the first like a lion, the second like the bear, the third like a leopard, and the fourth dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly, with teeth of iron. Who, again asked the preacher, should dare to say that the vision of the great sea and the great powers might not have further fulfilment among the nations and navies of to-day?