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than slaves, something more than pro-
letariat, serfs, subjects. We have rec
ognized the equality of all men before
God and the law; we have dealt even
justice to all as far as possible; we
have allowed no one religion to pre-
dominate and no one man to dictate.
Any republic or empire or kingdom
that is founded on evil or force or any,
thing except Gods laws, will not stand.
The Roman empire was founded on
conquest, and cruelty; where is it
today? The Egyptian empire was
founded on materialism and wealth;
where is it today? The Grecian power
was founded on sensuality and philos-
ophy; where is it todayp The French
empire under Napolean was founded
on militarism. What was the end of
that dread COrsican eagle and his ter
rible legions? The American repub-
lie is founded on equality, fraternity
and humanitarian. The smoke of our
conflicts has assembled from hundred
battleieIds, yet our flag has never met
defeat.
Those who are in favor of law and
order, in favor of progress and human
ity, will always outnumber those who
are in favor of no law and order by
vast majority, and they will be COM
bined against evil and injustice, there
fore will always prevail; for evil can
not combine in sufficient force to
overthrow them, nor can it stay COM
bined, for it has within it the seeds of
its own disintegration.
What of the Quays and Crokers?
What of the Tweeds and Fisks? AS
long as the world produces such men
as Moody, Ruskin, Talmage and others,
such women as Francis E. Willard,
Helen Gould, Maude Booth, Anna
Wheeler and others, 1 have no fear of
our relapsing into barbarism. The
peace conference at The Hague, shows
what these latter days are yearning for.
A century ago it would have been
laughed at.
The Red Cross society, the organized
charities, the Christian Endeavor, the
adoption of arbitration, the dissemina-
tion of education, the spread of the
gospel, the prohibition of the liquor
traffic and hundred other things,
show we are gradually merging into
that day when "the swords shall be
beaten into ploughshares, and the
spears into pruning hooks"
How can we doubt God when we
look up at the countless worlds in
space, when we gaze on the awful mys-
teries of tides and think of the num-
berless universes like ours that have
existed in the aeons of the past?
When we think of the mighty destinies
of the eternities to come; of the other
universes that shall be evolved in the
misty ages of the futurity, long, long
centuries after ours has passed into
the night of chaos and oblivion.
I do not believe God ever was de-
feated. L do not believe God ever will
be defeated. And as l gaze upon the
glorious splendors of the dawn; on the
beauties of the everlasting sunsets; on
the marvellous phenomena of the lights
and shadows; and the springtime and
the summer, and the sowing and reap
ing, l believe with simple faith and
feel that somewhere beyond the veil of
mystery all things will be made clear
turbulent existence will be explained
to us by Him who hath said: "Lo I
will be with you even unto the end of
the world" and though Heaven and
earth shall pass away, yet my word
shall not pass away" LEO.