The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-08-11
THE REPuBIIcAn JOURNAL THURSDAY AUGUST. IL 1910

discloses, he may select ana choose hia
wav Of life that rises above All petty an
ta9onisms Of individual or sectional self
interests. and through the higher realm
of sympathetic brotherly interest and in
tegrity to the common good, opens to-
ward the heavens of divine reality and
the stars of human destiny.
In our day we open our eyes to what is
going on around us, and it is to see album
dant signs of this happy contamination.
We see them everywhere; in the kindlier
relations between sects and parties, and
in flashing signals from nation to nation,
in the tendency among strong nations to
cease using their power for the conquest
of the weak and lend their superior abil-
ity and wisdom to sustain and uplift
them; in the growing sense OF common
interest and welfare that Is drawing
peoples and nations from attention to
their separate and contending interests
and fighting forces, and massing them
into one great onward moving body of
humanity under the single banner of
Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood and
Righteousness.
The wondrous progress IN recent times
Of discovery, growth of commerce, in
crease of facilities for travel and inter-
communication, is fast binding the
world-life into one neighborhood. No
more important event in all history was
there than that of our day: the estab-
lishment of an International Court of
Arbitration. In the natural course Of
human sense, this is but the first step in
the organization Of n atoms under world
legislative body and executive function
of government. The federation of the
world is no longer an iridescent dream OF
imaginative prophetic fancy; but is in
evitably and rapidly becoming practi-
cal reality, when
Empires by the sea, nations great and free,
One anthem raise.
One race, one faith we claim,
One God, whose glorious name we love and
praise"
1t is the task of our day and genera
ton to relieve that blindness from which
all tragic actions spring. Let in the
light of reality and conflicts will cease,
because they find no part in it, and mer
shall not learn war any more. Charge
the atmosphere of common life with the
magnetic power of positive suggestion
that will draw all thought, interest anc
motive into the onward and upward
sweep of universal reality.
Here is the part you and as individu
ais are to play in the great life matter
We may diminish the suggestive force
for positive good, and be lost from it,
onward sweep, by our blindness, wrong
choice, indifference, or indecision. o.
we may increase the suggestive power
for the actualities of being, and be for
ever saved in its unending forward
sweep, by being true to the highest we
know and can know. Never conten
with that we know and can do with east
and convenience; but constant in employ
of the facilities and powers to know
more and more the nature and direction
of the deep underlying forces of positive
life reaEty-The Will Divine-that We
may do better; to the happy end, tina
our life force may effectively help on the
march of events toward the day of light
when the world shall be the community
of God children.
80 make US through the centuries long;
In peace secure, in justice strong!
Around our gift of freedom draw
The safeguards of thy righteous law;
made in some diviner mould