Racial Experience 



he is all the time making for the same point. 

 Every turn of the helm and swing of the sails 

 has Its reason and proves his skill. Sometimes 

 he creeps in the mist by dead reckoning, not hav- 

 ing seen sun nor star for many a day. But 

 through it all he keeps his sails set and his rud- 

 der true. 



Only the motives which spring from these 

 racial convictions are worthy of and adequate 

 to the vast powers of the human mind. Roused 

 by these and steadily held to his purpose, man 

 becomes a being of Titanic power. He cannot 

 flinch In the fight or weary in the race. He 

 *' fights a good fight and finishes the course." 



Everyone of us has met some such men and 

 women. They are stout-hearted, cheery, hope- 

 ful, wise, calm, patient, and heroic, with Iron In 

 their blood, granite in their souls, and sunshine 

 on their faces. The old prophet had such in 

 mind when he said: 



" A man shall be as a hiding place from the 

 wind and a covert from the tempest; as rivers 

 of water In a dry place, as the shadow of a great 

 rock in a weary land." 



Such people are the '^ shadow of a great rock," 

 and when we are weary, baffled, defeated, and 



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