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people and making them slaves, they had g-iven them fair 

 opportunities. Do you know, my friends, if that had been 

 done your life and the lives of your children would have 

 been better and sweeter for it. Society would have been 

 safer, for out of those hard and g'rinding centuries that 

 fearful heritage which later came to the civilization, to the 

 wealth, and the splendor of Rome and Athens never would 

 have come. Let me give }OU just a little illustration. When 

 I was a boy there was a picture that made an impression 

 upon my mind that I never, to save my life, can wipe out, 

 and I think you men and women, in all seriousness, have had 

 similar events in your lives which have impressed you in the 

 same way. Many of you have seen pictures which in like 

 manner no doubt have had the same influence upon your 

 minds, but this particular picture of which I speak was a 

 picture of an old feudal castle. Night was coming on. The 

 lights were blinking and you knew what was going on inside. 

 Before the gate of the castle stood a man, a farmer of that 

 day, a poor, little, twisted figure of a man. He held in his 

 hand a rock which might have weighed eight or ten pounds. 

 There he stood, an impudent wretch, holding back his hand 

 as though to throw the rock against that gate. I shall nev- 

 er forget looking upon that man's face. It was so fearfully 

 impudent, for what could a man do by attempting to throw 

 a rock of that kind against ten thousand tons of the same 

 material? But let us suppose that the man had held in his 

 hand a ten-pound dynamite cartridge, and in an instant the 

 whole thing would have been changed. The old lord inside 

 of the castle would have been down upon his knees, white 

 and trembling, at the fearful power that lay within that 

 man's hand. What was that power? Simply the concen- 

 tration of power which God packed away in the earth until 

 the time came for its use, and that power God gave to man. 

 and in His own good time opened to him the way to use it. 

 Now, thank God, the time has come, or is coming, when men 

 do not need to use -dynamite to gain their rights, but they 

 have a force which is equally effective. I am speaking 



