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such a world madness the end of which we cannot 

 see. Here too we shall have the help of the wives 

 and sisters upon whom the greatest burdens and 

 suffering of war and of drunkenness fall. We can- 

 not be a peaceful nation without being a sober 

 nation; we cannot be both without going a long 

 way on the road of righteousness. The weak 

 things of the earth shall yet confound the mighty 

 and the purposes of God be accomplished in our 

 land. One shall not say to another Knowest 

 thou the Lord for all shall know Him even 

 from the least unto the greatest. 



As I draw near to the end of my story and the 

 description of the land in which I have been an 

 onlooker rather than an active force, I am pro- 

 foundly impressed with the changes and the im- 

 provements which have been made in the twelve 

 years since I came to reside in California. The 

 great seaport of San Francisco when I arrived was 

 half foreign and altogether provincial. After- 

 ward it was a city rocked by earthquakes and then 

 a city in ashes. For a brief time it became a sober 

 city wherein were no saloons ; and what a contrast 

 to its earlier, riotous self it was during that brief 

 period ! Struggling in the midst of economic prob- 

 lems and industrial confusion it shortly became a 



