FIFTY MILLION STRONG 



best thought of the natron, and the faith of all who are active 

 in the work of an uplift character is of the mountain-top 

 variety. With such a faith mountains can be moved. 



Let other countries glory in their past, 

 Our country glories in her days to be, 

 In her horizons, limitless and vast, 

 Her plains that storm the senses like the sea; 

 She has no ruins gray that men revere 

 Her time is now, her heritage is here. 



Anyone who has read the preceding paragraphs will con- 

 clude that the writer is an optimist. He is indeed, but 

 not so extreme an optimist as Pat, who was heard to exclaim 

 on plunging past the tenth story of a twenty-story New York 

 building, from the top floor of which he had just fallen 

 " All right, so far ! " Rather he is an optimist of the Brown- 

 ing variety, believing that " God's in his heaven, all's right 

 with the world." There is no question that " all's right with 

 the world." From the time God spoke to Abraham, nearly 

 forty centuries ago, the destinies of the peoples of earth have 

 been in the hands of Almighty God, and he who possesses a 

 discerning mind can see the hand of God in the affairs of 

 men all through these millenniums. Now, the American 

 people is not perfect, nor is it anywhere near perfect. But it 

 may be contended that it is fundamentally sound. While the 

 American nation as a whole reveals a number of imperfections 

 that cause the pessimist to cry out in his despair that it is 

 doomed, nevertheless beneath the imperfections there is a 

 heart that beats true and pumps good red blood through a 

 sound body, there is a conscience that is becoming more and 

 more sensitive to the promptings of divinity, there is a mind 

 possessed of a world vision and there is a will that is destined 

 to rule. America is on the threshold of the world's greatest 

 era, and in that era may the American people, one hundred 

 million strong, be the Moses that will guide the one and one- 

 half billion souls of earth toward the Promised Land ! 



Sir Gilbert Parker recently said : " We shall be wise if we 

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