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condemned on insufficient evidence. To this appeals 

 every buyer in the market, defrauded by the thrust 

 ing of adulterated goods into his hands. And to 

 this does every gentle one make appeal, defrauded in 

 ways still worse, by false expressions of love, from 

 whose falseness recoils a blighted life, bearing, through 

 long and weary years, witness to the cruel wrong which 

 has been done. Where, along the devious paths in 

 which man is found, is justice not honoured, at least 

 by outcry against harsh wrongs ? Is not this other, the 

 true excellence of life, seen walking more peacefully, 

 and with large sense of good, in unflinching and 

 willing acknowledgment of equal rights for mankind 

 of all colours and ranks and classes ? Not merely with 

 in sight of the strange medley of ill -doing and well 

 doing, but in the midst of it, where is ever recurring 

 sense of wrong, and most earnest striving after right. 

 Keligion appears, for this is the soul s appeal to the 

 Eternal, man s elevation in thought, in feeling, in 

 hope, when he lifts his eyes to the Father of all. 

 From under the shadow of all clouds, from the heart 

 of all miseries, in deepest sense of life s perplexities, 

 man asks that question, which can have but one 

 answer, Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? 

 Along this darkened, troubled pathway, a man rises 

 into calmer sense of elevation, swayed by desire for 

 consecration to the righteous and merciful Father of 

 our spirits, to whom he would have all men gather ; 

 a penitent, sensible of the presence of the power 

 which makes for righteousness. It were a poor de 

 scription of rational life, which did not include all 

 this. Wherever we be, we have but to turn our eyes 

 in any direction, in order to see the mystic forms of 



