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tenporizing expedients will fail. They
are dozy and brittle Paresis stamps

are dOZY ana DrlCCle. FdIeSle elduPo
them. They are judged. :.
All the real progress in the idea OF what
n genuine democracy includes, and what
q excludes, has been. consciously or not.
an appreciation and incorporation of
Christ's ideas of man. 1t has been a
painful process. slowly penetrating the
intricate processes and sodden politics OF
the world, attended by harsh parodies and
bitter failures; but it has been continuous
and eliminating, and at last it will con-
quer.
The errors and folies of men in the 50.
cred name of mankind have been appalling.
Liberty has been deciaimed ~ those who
were themselves the servants of corrup-
ton but the very curre---!ey of the eoun-
terfeit is a testimony to the value of the
true coin.
Timid souls shrink back from the birth.
pangs of change The near-sighted and
ease.loving refuse to think large enough
to see what lies in that proposition, in
which the evangel is cognate with the law
of liberty-that every man is man. But
the virgins magnifcat is the ennunciation
of a new society. 1t is prophecy; An
apocalypse is folded in it, "He hath put
down the mighty from their seats and ex-
alted them of low degree"
That cause Of the people, Ehieh by the the
and educates the largest number, grows
with each latest day. Before its awful
rose of dawn" the lanterns of cropping
years are superseded. The law of the
spirit of life, as Christ, the peoples Man,
interprets it, making all classes danger
Gus classes" and those the most so who
must absent themselves from the concerns
of men at large; it instills the conviction
that an actually human relationship yields
to no adverse possession" Of privilege,
and that the dynasty of the minority
must pass.
For democracy America stands. To it
we are shut up. This is the peoples land:
By Christianity democracy shall stand
of Christ, it denies that which begat it.
A divineiy human society, from God and
through men, with the two great and last
commandments as its pillars, is that to
which we are summoned it we are to
keen faith with men and God.
Signally, before the envious nations, we
are to chasten, uphold, defend that idea,
vide as the earth is. We cannot evade
the duty. and we must not sell the bless
ing. To retreat or to retract would be to
relnauish that opportunity of which
America is, the trustee,not to exploit a
continent, but to uplead O. world. New
Nv
BILE faith upon us.
The cause of the peoples-of all the peo-
pie, the cause of mankind and of every
man, specially the lowest and the least
is the cause and the only cause of democ-
racy, and it also is the cause of Him
whose errand was liberation, and Who. as
the eternal deliyerer. lives to accomplish
all His invincib,e decree.
Hail, Thou Son of Man! Let all the
people praise Thee! Then shall the earth
yield her increase! The enlargement of
all the sons of men is Thy supreme ar
gnment and evidence. They shall walk at
liberty because they seek Thy precepts.
If Thou shalt make US free we shall be
free indeed. Love is Thy law and the fel.
lowship of love its answer. Unto Thysef
save Thou this America.
Well did Grover Cleveland say this
sprin at St. Louis: "It is a solemn
thing to belong to a people favored Of
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