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political parties according to their action upon this question, it would be 

 surprising how soon both parties would accept arbitration as a policy. I 

 know of no work that would prove more fruitful for your country 

 and for the world than this. It is by concentrating upon one issue that 

 great causes are won. 



In this holy work of insisting upon arbitration, surely we may 

 expect the men and women of St. Andrews, of all universities and 

 other educational institutions, of all the churches and of all the pro- 

 fessions to unite and take a prominent part. I quoted the words of 

 Washington at the beginning of this appeal. Let me close by quoting 

 the words of Lincoln. When a young man, employed upon a trading 

 boat, he made a voyage of some weeks' duration upon the Mississippi. 

 He visited a slave market, where men, women and children were not 

 slaughtered, as formerly in war, but were separated and sold from the 

 auction block. His companion tells that after standing for some time 

 Lincoln turned and walked silently away. Lifting his clenched hand, 

 his first words were, ' If ever I get a chance, I shall hit this accursed 

 thing hard.' Many years passed, during which he never failed to 

 stand forth as the bitter foe of slavery and the champion of the slave. 

 This was for him the paramount issue. He was true to his resolve 

 throughout life, and in the course of events his time came at last. This 

 poor, young, toiling boatman became president of the United States, 

 and Mas privileged with a stroke of his pen to emancipate the 

 slaves last remaining in the civilized world, four millions in number. 

 He kept the faith, and gave the lesson for all of us in our day, who 

 have still with us war in all its enormity, many of us more or less 

 responsible for it, because we have not hitherto placed it above all other 

 evils and concentrated our efforts sufficiently upon its extinction. Let 

 us resolve like Lincoln, and select man-slaying as our foe, as he did 

 man-selling. Let us, as he did, subordinate all other public questions 

 to the one over-shadowing question, and, as he did, stand forth upon 

 all suitable occasions to champion the cause. Let us, like him, keep the 

 faith, and as his time came, so to us our time will come, and, as it 

 does, let us hit accursed war hard until we drive it from the civilized 

 world, as he did slaverv. 



