THE CALL OF THE LAND 



who will duly study the social problems of 

 our time and help to their solution? Where 

 are the consecrated sons and daughters of 

 wealth ready to preach to their peers the 

 obligations resting upon them? Where are 

 the men who will covet political careers 

 with an evangelical spirit, preparing for 

 and, if possible, entering public life with a 

 determination to make it purer and more 

 efficient, seeking places of trust, competing 

 with selfish schemers for chances to exert 

 great power in the capital affairs of men? 



May every one who can do good in any 

 of these ways hear the voice which searched 

 the soul of the youthful Buddha: 



"Oh, thou who are to save, thine hour is nigh ; 

 The sad world waiteth in its misery, 

 The blind world stumbleth on its round of pain; 

 Rise, Maya's Son, wake, slumber not again!" 



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