The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-24

the Predetermined. We see the spirit
of brotherly love manifested among
many fraternal lodges, even if limited
to men of their own tribe. We see
men and women devoting their lives
without money and without price to
the cause of the Master in uplifting
the fallen and giving aid and comfort
to the needy. We see thousands OF the
poor from the crowded tenement dis
tricts of cities colonized : on fertile
tracts of land and converted into use
full self-supporting, God-fearing cltl-
zens We see brave men and heroic
women facing famine, fever and pesti-
lence in strange lands in their zeal to
carry the "tidings of great joy" to the
people of all nations.
In all this there is hope of the full
fillment of the prophecy of peace on
earth. good will to men, Never be-
fore in the worlds history We're there
so many grand, unselfsh, noble men
and women laboring to make their fell
loWmen better and happier. The VIZ
tues of these chosen messengers of the
gospel Of love shine all the brighter by
contrast with the false pretensions of
that great host Of hypocrites who have
stolen the livery of heaven to serve
the devil in
In a Thanksgiving Day address be-
fore the American Club IN London,
William J. Bryan said:
e To-
and saw upon the wall a strange figure.
1t was made OF swords, ramrods. and
bayonets, and was fashioned into the
form Of a flower. Someone had PIT a
card on it and apply named it the pas
sion fOWer-and it has been too often
the international flower. But the
world has made progress. No longer
do ambition and ayarice furnish a suf-
fCient excuse for war. The world has
made progress, and today you cannot
justify blOodshed except in defense of
a right already ascertained, and then
only when all peaceable means have
been exhausted. The world has made
progress. We have reached a point
where We respect not the man VINO
will die 10 secure some pecuniary ad-
vantage. but who will die in defense
of his rights. We admire the moral
courage Of the man who is willing to
die in defense of his Rights, but there
is yet before US a higher ground Is
he great who will die in defense of his
rights? There is yet to come a greater
man still-the man who will die rath-
er than trespass upon the rights of an
other. Hail to the nation whatever its
name may be that leads the world to-
wards the realiza ton of this higher
nige that there is something more
powerful than physical force, and no
one has stated it better than Carlyle.
He said that thought was stronger than
artillery parks, and at last moulded
the world like soft clay; that behind
thought was love, and that there never
was a wise head that had not behind it
a generous heart. The world was
coming to understand that armies and
naVies, however numerous and strong,
are impOtent to stop thought. Thought
inspired by love will yet rule the world.
l am glad that there is a national pro-
duct more valuable than gold or silver,
more valuable than cotton or wheat or
corn or iron, the ideal. That is a mer-
chandise-if | may call it Such-that
moves freely from country to country.
You cannot vex it with an export tax
or hinder it with an import tariff. 1t
is greater than legislators, and rises
triumphant over the machinery of gov
eminent. In the rivalry to present the
best ideal to the world, love, not ha-
tired, will control; and 1 am glad that
on this Thanksgiving Day l can meet
With my countrynen and their friends
here assembled, return thanks for what
my country has received, thanks for
the progress that the world has made
and contemplate with joy the coming
of that day when the rivalry between
nations will be, not to see which can
injure the other most, but to show
which can hold highest the light that
guides the pathway of the human race
to higher ground
The kingdom that is to be in the
hearts of men is coming more rapidly
than can be realized by any mortal
with his narrow view of the progress
of events. Men are not to be made
righteous all at once by a miracle.
| The race is left to work out its own
| salvation under divine guidance. The
| task seems everlasting. The evolution
of the soul will never end, but day by
| day, year by year, life by life we are
| coming nearer to the reign Of peace
! and heaven one.
| ''Forewarned is fOrearmed." Now
/