I am indebted to Brother Stephen of Milton for a copy of this platform. Laws seem to be made to be broken and circumvented by the rich and the privileged and to act as a noose and trap for the poor who cannot PAY for justice. The people of the State of New York pay to much for Justice when they do receive it. Justice without righteousness is destructive. It then becomes the rule of the stronger, and liberty the law which the stronger allow.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
The stranger within the gates is impressed so indelibly by the manner of greeting he receives from those who dwell within. If this first greeting is cold, indifferent, disdainful and contemptuous the stranger goes away with a bitterness in his heart and fails not to pass the word along to his friends and his friends to their friends until the good that may have been accomplished, the plans and structure of the architect of a magnificent temple is lost. I can overlook a few exceptions that can be noted among some of the good brothers and sisters, well knowing that the spiritual metamorphosis in some is slower than in others. The characteristical and dispositional nature of man is not changed in the twinkling of an eye. But You are changing the hearts of thousands of persons through creating within them right thinking and right living.