Kuyper wrote this article to celebrate the upcoming visit (May 22–25, 1914) of the Danish royal couple, Christian X (1870–1947) and Alexandrina Duchess of Mecklenburg, to Queen Wilhelmina. In it he identifies the family connections between the two royal houses. He also discusses the significance of the arbitration treaty signed by the Netherlands and Denmark on February 12, 1904. Kuyper regarded this treaty as a token of the good relations between the two countries and an important step on the road to lasting peace between them. This treaty represented the first complete arbitration agreement conforming to the ideas set out by the First International Peace Conference at the Hague (1899). The Dutch envoy to the Danish court, J.D.C. van Heeckeren van Kell (see 1910.09), made a substantial contribution toward the ratification of the treaty. Kuyper concludes the article by expressing the wish that John Morley’s (1838–1923) adage “the smaller states are the salt of the earth” might prove true for Denmark and the Netherlands in the future.