The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-09-10
Efficient AND SUFFICIENT.
witheut Righteousaess Tho Nations o

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witheut righteousness tho Nations of
tho Esrth May Not BE Hesled.
Once In the blue midnight In my study
on Beacon hill In Boston I fell into long
thought as looked out on the land and
on the sea, and passing through the gate
of dreams / saw tho angel having change
of America stand In the air above the
continent, and his wings Swallowed
either shore. Around him were gath
cred all who at Valley Forge and at An
Jacksonville and the other sacred places
suffered for the preservation of vir+u-
Gus republic, and they conversed of what
was and is and is to be. There was
about the angel multitude whom no
man could number, of all nations and
kindreds and tribes and tongues, and
their voices were as the sound Of many
waters; and heard thunderings and
saw lightnings, but the face of the an
gel was above the iightness Of the light
nings and the majesty Of his words
above that of the thunders.
Then came forth before the angel
three spirits whose garments were white
as the light. And saw not their faces,
but heard the tan thousand times ten
thousand call them by names known on
earth-Washington and Lincoln and
Garfield. And behind them stood Hamp-
den and Tell and Miltiades and Leoni-
das. and a multitude who had scars and
crowns. And they said to the angel:
1--WE will go on earth and teach the diff
fusion Of liberty. We will heal Amer
lea by equality" And the angel said:
go. You will be efficient, but not suf-
ficieut."
Meanwhile, under immigrant wharves,
and under the novels of the perishing
poor, and under crowded factories, and
under the poisonous alleys Of great cities,
heard far in the subterranean depths
the black angels laugh.
Then came forward before the angel
three other spirits whose garments were
white as the light. And saw not their
faces, but heard the ten thousand
times ten thousand call them by names
known on earth-Franklin and Hamil-
ton and Irving. And behind them stood
Pestalozzi and Shakespeare and Bacon
and Aristotle, and multitude who had
scrolls and crowns. And they said to
the angel: "We will go on earth and
teach the diffusion Of intelligence. We
will heal America by knowledge" And
the angel said, go. You will be eff
cient, but not sufficient
Meanwhile, under immigrant wharves
and crowded factories, and under Wash
ington, and under scheming conclaves
Of mon acute and INSCRIPTIONS, and
under many newspaper presses, and be-
meath Wall street, and under the poison
GUS alleys of great cities, I heard the
black angels laugh. #....#=
Then came forward before the angel
three other spirits whom heard the ten
thousand times ten thousand call by
names known on earth-Adams and JEFF
stood Chatham and Wilberforce and
Howard, and the Roman Gracchi. and II
multitude who had keys and crowns.
And they said to the angel: 1--WE will go
on earth and teach the diffusion Of prop
Ierty. We will heal America by the
self respect Of ownership" And the
angel SAID: go. You will be efficient,
but not sufficient"
Meanwhile, under immigrant wharves
and crowded factories, and beneath Wall
street, and under the poisonous alleys of
Isuffocated greal cities, heard yet the
black angels laugh.
Then came lastly forward before the
angel three other spirits, with garments
white as the light, and / saw not their
faces, but heard the ten Thousand times
ten thousand call them by names known
on earth-Edwards and Dwight and
Whitefeld. And behind them stood
tWycliffe and Cranmer and Wesley and
Luther and o multitude who had harps
and crowns. And they said to the angel;
f"We will 20 on earth and teach the diff
fusion of conscientiousneas. We will
heal America by righteousness" And
the angel arose and lifted up his far
cleaning hand to the heaven of heavens
and said: "Go. Not in the first three.
but only in all four of these leaves from
the tree OF life, is TO be found the healing
Of the nations-the diffusion of liberty
the diffusion of intelligence, the diffu,
sion Of property and the diffusion OF
eonscientiousness. You will be more
than ever efficient, but not sufficient"
listened, and under Plymouth Rock
and the universities there was no sound,
but under immigrant wharves and
crowded factories, and under Wall
street, and in poisonous alleys of great
cities heard the black angels laugh,
but with the laughter came up from be.
meath clankinR of chains.
Then / looked, and the whole frina.
ment above the angel was as if it were
one azure eye, and into it the ten thou.
sand times ten thousand gazed, and saw
that they stood in one palm of hand OF
him into whose face they gazed, and that
the soft axle of the world stood upon
the finger of another palm and that boil
palms were pierced. l saw the twelve
spirits which had gone forth, and they
joined hands with each other and with
the twelve hours and moved perpetually
about the globe, and heard voice,
after which there was no laughter,
Eye are efficient, but am sufficient. ~
Joseph Cook.