Christian Citizenship 



see but dimly. But each of us can at least strive, as 

 light and strength are given him, toward the ideal. 

 Effort along any one line will not suffice. We 

 must not only be good, but strong. We must not 

 only be high-minded, but brave-hearted. We must 

 think loftily, and we must also work hard. It is 

 not written in the Holy Book that we must merely 

 be harmless as doves. It is also written that we must 

 be wise as serpents. Craft unaccompanied by con 

 science makes the crafty man a social wild beast who 

 preys on the community and must be hunted out of 

 it. Gentleness and sweetness unbacked by strength 

 and high resolve are almost impotent for good. 



The true Christian is the true citizen, lofty of pur 

 pose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, 

 but never looking down on his task because it is cast 

 in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, 

 awake to his own duties as well as to his rights, 

 following the higher law with reverence, and in this 

 world doing all that in him lies, so that when death 

 comes he may feel that mankind is in some degree 

 better because he has lived. 



END OP VOLUME TWELVE 



