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PRENATAL CULTURE. 



Reverence and 

 Faith. 



Reverence 

 Essential to 

 Government. 



Great Men 

 Believe in God, 



versity, for his loss is my loss." "I will shed 

 the light of kindness and take the balm of human 

 sympathy wherever I go, making glad the hearts 

 of men." 



Reverence for God, for old age, for superiors, 

 for law, for things sacred and faith in the good, 

 the pure, humanity and futurity, are indispen- 

 sable to the well-being of society, the advance- 

 ment of humanity and the conduct of the indi- 

 vidual. Show me a man without reverence for 

 gray hairs, law and things sacred, without faith 

 in his fellow man or God, and I will show you 

 a villain, if not a criminal. 



The absence of true reverence and the lack of 

 faith are among the greatest problems, not only 

 of the Church, but of the State. If there is 

 no reverence for law, then the laws of the state 

 become impotent except as they are enforced 

 against the offender, but their enforcement is too 

 late to prevent the evil conduct. In proportion 

 as the moral sentiments are developed in the race, 

 in proportion as men come to revere law and 

 divinity and have faith in God and man, in that 

 same degree does civilization mount upward and 

 the life of the individual man become improved. 



Not all truly great men have been religious in 

 the generally accepted use of the term; but all 

 truly great men have been reverential, express- 

 ing sublime faith in man, in nature, in ultimate 

 justice, and the final outworking of unerring law 

 to give the greatest good to the greatest num- 

 ber. Religion is not a tradition, not a doctrine, 

 not a book. It is the expression of God's love in 

 the souls of men. It is not so much a question 



