remembrance of our past failures?

This, then is what Messiah stands for to the individual; but if
we can conceive a nation based upon such a recognition of its
special relation to the Directing Power of the Universe, such a
people must of necessity become the leader of the nations, and
those who oppose it must fail by a self-destructive principle
inherent in the very nature of the position they take up. The
leadership resulting from such a national self-recognition, will
not be based upon conquest and compulsion, but will come
naturally. Other nations will enquire the reason for the
phenomenal success and prosperity of the favoured people, and
finding this reason in a universal Law, they will begin to apply
the same law in the same manner, and thus the same results will
spread from country to country until at last the whole earth will
be full of the glory of the Lord. And such a nation, and rather
company of nations, exists. To trace its present development from
its ancient beginnings is far beyond the scope of this volume,
and still more to speculate upon its further growth; but to my
readers on both sides of the Atlantic I may say that this people
is the Anglo-Saxon race throughout the world. I write these lines
upon the historic Hill of Tara; this will convey a hint to many
of my readers. At some future time I may enlarge upon this
subject; but at present my aim is merely to suggest some lines of
thought arising from the Master's saying that "Salvation is of
the Jews."