The age-herald., 1898-05-22

deeds have signified their willingness thus to sacrifice themselves for their Gan- try.
 "But after all, a nobler, sweeter life is to carry out the beautiful thought expressed in the life and writings of the late Prof. Drummond and learn not how to die for ones country, but how to live for it.
 Years ago, when Kossuth visited America, he said: "If shipwreck should ever be- fall your country, the rock upon which it will split will be your devotion to your private interests at the expense of your duty to the state.'
 The remaining chapters in the little vol ume deal with the other side of the ques- ton, and suggest the remedy for these ex- isting evils and tendencies. The first reme- dy is to be found in "The New Patriotism" whereby the substantial, upwright busi- ness man of the city shall awake to the responsibilities that are inevitably resting upon him. In the years to come he must exercise his independent, intelligent, and conscientious judgment concerning public affairs and then the political boss will soon find himself without an occupation in the words of the author the peril demands "A new patriotism-not new in spirit, but in manifestation; one which is civil rather than military; one which devotes itself to the principle actually endangered; not a patriotism which constructs Notifications and builds navies but one which puriies politics and substitutes statesmen for demagogues; not one which rallies round the flag so much as one which rallies round the ballot box; not one which charges into the deadly breach, but one which smashes the machine.
 Not one which offers itself to die for the country, but one that is willing to. live for it, which is as much more heroic as 1t is difficult" It is needless to say that in this connection Dr. trong makes fervent appeal for the cause of education in the state at large; like every other right mind- ed citizen who has the welfare of his coun- try at heart, he says with insistent perti- hence, eff the individual citizen is not made intelligent touching the government of the city; if he is incapable of forming an independent and intelligent judgment, as if he negleets the franchise or sells It r-uses it for personal instead of public ends, there will not be lacking selfish and designing men to command an minimizing or interruptions following, and so control the city for private gain instead of the public good"
 Education and truer Christianity then are to be the bulwarks of the future; not a higher education for the few, but an intel ligent eniightening of the broad masses; giving to. each one. however humble, the ability to read and write and that uplift- ing of moral and spiritual forces which invariably accomplishes the instructed and expanding mind. The remaining chapters contain words of golden wisdom in their suggestive counsels and practical propo- sitions. Not by any means the Christianity as suggested by the dreamer or the propo- sition of social principles which would re- auire the millennium on earth, but sound, practical suggestions which are worthy the earnest consideration of all men. Ths time is full of unrest. few are there who will not agree with every statement made by Dr. Strong. of existing conditions, yet after reading his inestiraable book the true sig nihcance of it all is borne in upon the mind with great beriousness. The sales of his