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THOUGHTS HERE AND THERE 
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own, and are not distanced by their 
quick-selling modern rivals; that the 
works of Bacon, Shakespeare, Milton, 
Dickens, are in steady demand; that 
among the largest issues of the press 
next to the Bible, to which Pilgrim’s 
Progress and Spurgeon’s sermons are a 
close second, are D. L. Moody’s works 
equalling 2,500,000 copiesayear. The 
world has not all gone daft yet. 
One is not to be charged with lack of 
patriotism if he has little sympathy with 
war spirit that sometimes crops out 
among us, and that is sometimes fostered 
by some of our public men who ought 
to know better. 
Aside altogether from all christian and 
humanitarian sentiment, all our interests 
are in the line of peace. Peace at any 
price may be an unworthy principle, war 
may sometimes be unavoidable; but there 
is nothing in sight at present which justi- 
fies the bellicose vaporings of a certain 
class of politicians and newspaper writers 
among us. 
The more conscience and moral sanity 
and hopefulness we can have in our 
business and political world, and the less 
of selfishness and buncombe, the better. 
It is easy to write Jeremiads and to fall 
into the slough of Despond, but there is 
reason to hope that the great mass of the 
American people are at heart in favor of 
fairness, honesty and right; the great 
trouble is, matters get so much into the 
hands of demagogues, shysters and men 
who have an axe to grind, that ,the 
people are seldom heard from. 
Let some great national and moral 
question stir the nation to its depths, and 
we Shall see a force set in motion as of 
mountains upheaving, a force with which 
politicians and place-hunters and all who 
vampire-like draw the blood of the body 
politic will have to reckon. 
kmerson said, ‘“ Your goodness must 
have some edge to it, else it is none,’’ 
is not very much of the goodness that is 
extolled and practised at the present day 
of a soft, flabby, jelly-fish nature and 
contour, that has no firmness and no dis- 
tinct: outline. Must not real goodness 
be a ‘‘terror to evil doers’? as well a 
““ praise to them that do well,’’ must it 
not hurt those who come into wilful and 
refractory contact with it, in other words, 
must it not have some edge to it? 
It is often said that many things show 
that the world is on the eve of great 
changes, religious, moral, economic and 
political; that in the words of Bishop 
Coxe, written more than half a century 
ago, 
*“We are living, we are dwelling, 
In a grand and awful time,”’ 
but who is prophet enough to cast the 
horoscope of the future, or tell what the 
outcome of movements now going on 
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around us is likely to be? One thing 
we may be sure of, that the past will not 
b: repeated, and there is no reason to 
believe that those who confidently draw 
up a program for the Almighty will be 
any more successful than those who 
heve ventured upon similar attempts in 
the past. 
But while we cannot map out one 
day’s events in advance, we may be pre- 
pired for whatever the morrow may 
have for us by doing diligently and faith- 
fully the work of today; there is a large 
and wise sense in which we may let the 
morrow take thought for the things of 
itself. 
No one will ever take the unique place 
that Washington holds in the hearts of 
his country men, not even Lincoln who 
was much more a man of the people 
and a more lovable man than the Father 
of his country; and it would be well if 
the life and character and services of the 
great and patriotic Virginian and Ameri- 
can were made more and more a study 
in our schools and homes. Nations owe 
a debt to their truly great men, like 
Washington and Lincoln, which they 
can repay not by building monuments or 
waving flags or firing cannon, but by per- 
petuating their principles and re-embody- 
ing their spirits. 
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