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There are many sublime thoughts in this poem! 

 He healed the broken-hearted, " and drew them, so 

 redeemed, his task to share," and around his tomb 

 " a great people bows its stricken head where he who 

 fought without reproach or fear, soldier of Christ, lies 

 dead." But these are not only great thoughts, but 

 facts, and we are entitled to point to them as evidence 

 that the Great Miracle is in process of accomplishment, 

 and that " the despised and rejected of men, the Man 

 of sorrows and acquainted with grief," has triumphed 

 and " overcome the world." 



We have referred to trade unions. No doubt there 

 must be an extension of these organisations so as to 

 include every worker in the land, so that poverty, 

 as a result of insufficient wages, will be demolished, 

 and have passed to the limbo of forgotten things. The 

 most recent development of trade unionism is known 

 as Syndicalism, and the subject has already been dealt 

 with generally. It was pointed out that in so far as 

 the workers desire to become the possessors of the 

 different trades to the exclusion of the capitalist and 

 the people as a whole, they are on wrong lines ; and 

 that if a new condition of things, to be secured by the 

 abolition of the present capitalistic system, is to be 

 permanent, it must be founded on altruistic and not 

 on materialistic principles. An exchange of posses- 

 sion may be necessary as a step in the evolutionary 

 process at work in society, but it cannot be permanent. 

 The only permanence possible is that which shall be 

 established on a basis of collectivism. In other 

 words, all landed property and all industry and com- 

 merce must become an integral portion of the State, 

 all being controlled and worked for the benefit of every 

 individual according to his necessary requirements. 

 This entails the abrogation of individual wealth, of 

 greed, of the desire to accumulate possessions, which 



