PUBLIC SPIRIT 



We need public spirit in ourselves and the 

 purpose and power to evoke it in others. 



When Admiral Foote, in eastern waters, 

 invited a native prince to dine with him on 

 his flagship, and himself said grace, the 

 heathen remarked : "That is what the mis- 

 sionaries do." "Well," said the gruff but 

 godly admiral, "I, too, am a missionary." 



Would that in matters of our community 

 life we might all be missionaries! Honor 

 the missionary and the work which mission- 

 aries are at this moment accomplishing in 

 the civilization of our human brothers in 

 foreign parts. Honor the social missionary, 

 who, braving the gibes and contumely of 

 the so-called "cultivated," espouses the 

 cause of the poor, and on the platform, in 

 the press, or by personal work, proves his 

 love for untitled humanity in its struggles 

 against forbidding social conditions. 



The world painfully needs two more 

 classes of missionaries still social mis- 

 sionaries to the rich, and political 

 missionaries. Where are the young 

 men and women of means and leisure 



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