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to gambling is manifest everywhere.
| Because of the war the public debt is
| being increased hundreds of millions
of dollars annually. OF course the debt
will be paid, for if countries hardly
large enough for a sheep pasture for
America can pay many times The
amount we ought not to fear our public
debt. Several hundred millions have
been expended by our Government as
a result of war and these millions have
been distributed in various channels,
giving fresh impetus to many indus
tries. Yet a reaction is bound to come,
not so much by divine appointment as
by human agency.
Days should speak and years should
give knowledge
power of which cannot be estimated,
is of comparatively recent origin. She
| has thrown TO the breeze and given
wings to more thought during this CEN
fury than during all the centuries of
the past. The gift of tongues was a
mighty force in spreading the Gospel in
the early days, but the press far tran
sends it; for to-day millions of copies
of Gods book, together with other bib
! lical literature, are annually distributed
! in the seventeen different tongues, as
on Pentecost. Yea, into some 800 differ
ent languages and dialects. AS Chris
tan education advances, the millions
| Of trash called literature will recede
and give place to a higher order that
have their origin in the deep principles
of our nature Thanks for the press
Before we close. let us devote a mo-
ment or two to the financial outlook
We are now on the eve of great pros
perity, as now seems apparent. How
to continue should be taken into ac-
count by the nation, the corporation
and the individual. Speculation is rife
on every hand; unsafe speculation akin
May the experiences of the pdkt make
US wise in the use of our present pros
perity, that the financial calamities Of
the past few years may not be repeated.
| AS nation we should thank God for
better sentiment politically; for a
better conscience municipality: for the
influence of Christian principles in So
cial and public life; for the bountiful
harvests of the year. That famine and
pestilence have been kept from our
door. Truly, ours is goodly heritage.
AS citizens of this great State, have We
anything to be especially thankful for?
California-supposed by some to be
the Ophir of the ancients indeed, it is
not unlikely the gem of the oceans,
beautiful for situation, the joy of her
citizens; producing the biggest trees.
the largest vegetables the most luscious
fruits, the prettiest and most fragrant
flowers, and the world famous cereals;
the finest bays on the continent, besides
the most beautiful women and some of
the grandest men in the world to-day.
to say nothing of the natural wonders
that attract visitors from all parts of
the earth. Without a doubt our below
ed State is destined to be the great
commercial emporium between the
great East and the vast and mighty
West. We may yet look for the com
merce of Asia to be horne on the bosom
of the placid Pacific, and from Califor-
MIA be distributed throughout the con-
tinent. One more step westward and
California will become the great com
mercial depot of the world and the
step is bound to be taken. May we as
a nation be SO loyal to the vital inter
ests committed to us by the sacrifice
and blood of our fathers that we NAV
rise to our highest possibilities and
transmit to the twentieth century those