AMERICA 



into the maelstrom of the war, but the collective conscience 

 and wisdom of her people have enabled her steadily to pursue 

 the even tenor of the way of neutrality. On several occasions 

 America has suffered indignities at the hands of some of the 

 belligerent nations, but she has kept ever in view the great 

 duty that the next generation will impose upon her, and if 

 she is able to assume the responsibilities of the New Era 

 with clean hands her service to mankind will be all the 

 greater. So, because of her expanding wealth, her aggressive 

 humanitarian activities, her patience, endurance and charity 

 during many trying days, America is in the pink of condition 

 for any world duty that may await her. 



Sixth, America's Faith. D'Annunzio has written most 

 beautifully of the New Italy, and says, among other things, 

 that the ideal of the New Italy, in its future endeavors, is a 

 " maximum of individual and collective power." * What an 

 inspiring motto this is for a nation, and does not the trend 

 of affairs in recent years in America indicate that it also fits 

 perfectly into her ambitions? There has been a resurgence 

 of faith from ocean to ocean and from the lakes to the gulf. 

 She has set herself some herculean tasks and her faith that 

 these tasks will be accomplished is great. In the missionary 

 field the slogan is, " The world for Christ in this generation." 

 It takes faith of a very high order to believe that this aspira- 

 tion will come to fruition. But there is little doubt that by 

 the close of this generation all peoples of earth will have 

 heard the gospel of the Savior of Men. In the temperance 

 field the slogan is, "A dry nation in 1920." Already nineteen 

 states have adopted prohibition and all the other states of the 

 Union .are partially dry, whereas less than a generation ago 

 almost the whole temperance map of the. nation was black. 

 With great zeal the people are warring against impurity, 

 making efforts to bring Christ into the business world that 

 labor and capital may become partners, endeavoring to solve 

 the slum problem of the cities and the isolatipn problem of 

 the country, while scores of other problems are engaging the 



1 See The Literary Digest, October 9, 1915, p. 774. 



