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We sat out on the green grass and ate 
our luncheon. ~ 
This trip is one that no tourist can 
overlook, and it is called the Little 
Switzerland of America. A fine forest 
of redwood can be seen on the way 
up. 
On looking down from the piazza of 
Mt. Tamalpais Tavern the railroad 
can be plainly seen, with all its wind- 
ings, also the ‘Double Bow-knot.” 
It takes two hours to go up and forty 
minutes to go down.. Up at a place 
called West Point, about one-half way, 
the train stops to let off passengers to 
connect with stage for Willow Camp, 
Dipsea and Bolinas beach. This also 
is a breakneck ride. My next will be 
a description of a trip through the 
Santa Clara Valley to Santa Cruz. 
LOYALTY. 
By Kate Restieaux. 
It no sooner meets the eye or 
falls on the ear, than our deepest 
feelings are at once aroused. We 
lcok for something great to follow 
from the tongue or pen of him who 
dares to make use of so pregnant 
a word. 
It has been said that a very large 
percentage of men and women 
“live for the gallery,” that they per- 
form no act from impulse or spon- 
taneity, but always with the idea 
of how it will appear to the on- 
lookers, or if it shall directly benefit 
themselves. : 
I do not believe, however, that 
humanity is deteriorating, that we 
as a people are growing weak and 
servile; but, I believe, rather, that 
the spirit of independence and 
moral uprightness, whatever  be- 
tide, is growing so rampant that 
its opposite is more noticeable and 
is being held up to ridicule. Much 
depends upon the point of view in 
this as in other matters. 
Annie Payson Call, a truly great 
teacher, says that in olden times if 
a man received an injury that made 
him want to kill his enemy, he 
stalked forth and killed him, if he 
could, or received his own quietus. | 
It was so in all dissension, “an eye 
for an eye,” etc. Nowadays, we re- 
ceive the injury and resent it just 
as much, but we cannot go forth 
and slay, so we have taken on hab- 
its of self repression, partly because 
our reason teaches us that patience 
is a virtue, and, too, because we 
believe in “Vengeance is mine. I 
will repay, saith the Lord.” But, 
as Miss Call says, it is a question 
how far this spirit should be car- 
ried. To repress a feeling of honest 
indignation, and the desire to see 
justice done, is to hold back what 
clearly needs expression, and such 
action must result in a depletion of 
moral energy, and find egress in 
some underhand method of winning 
our point or “getting square.’’ Miss 
Call remarks that no physician of 
the body would countenance. such 
suppression during physical dis- 
orders and, in moral or mental diffi- 
culties much the same law prevails. 
By this, I do not-mean that we 
should sally forth and slay our op- 
pressors, but I would that we might 
be loyal to the best that is in us. 
Can we forget that one of the 
most heartrending things in the 
life of Christ was the way in which 
those who should have supported 
him fell away, in His hour of need? 
The forces of evil are combined. 
The men who conduct their lives 
for the winning of fortunes and 
honors off their fellow creatures are 
unanimous in support of certain 
methods. But those who stand for 
spiritual things, for purity, sweet- 
ness and singleness of heart, are 
almost afraid to touch hands as 
they pass by. They need not so 
fear. There is a blessed “free- 
masonry” of voice and eye, to which 
the true and loyal can always re- 
sort, but there is, no less, the neces- 
sity of standing by each _ other, 
which none can deny, and _ beside 
which the wheedling pusillanimous 
spirit which always says, “You go 
first,” is much to be despised. 
We all deplore the necessity of 
war, yet how dreadful is the tri- 
umph of iniquity. A great woman, 
almost a townswoman of our own, 
Gail Hamilton, said: “War is the 
strenuous struggle of great sins; 
apathy is their complete rule. War 
is the horror of the storm; apathy 
is the horror of death.” 
What, then, is this loyalty? 
Would we have had the men and 
women of America do other than 
rise in just indignation at the Span- 
ish atrocities in Cuba? It cost us 
much—it has not ceased to cost; 
but to have played the coward when 
our battleship was wrecked, had 
meant national dishonor. We would 
not build those battleships, nor man 
them, were not the sins of the 
world still so far uppermost as to 
make it necessary. When we 
struck the blow that freed Cuba, we 
stood in loyal vindication of our 
countrys name. 
Loyalty is a something inherent 
in man. It is so far inherent that 
he will often be loyal to what is 
wrong unless he be led to the right. 
I have noticed how, more than 
in any other way, this matter of 
loyalty may be distorted in the re- 
ligious life, and I count it a great 
trial when the question of loyalty to 
a man or to an organization arises. 
There are often. times when 
some fiery soul will infect and lead 
a people to break all bonds, and to 
uproot what has long seemed both 
just and good. But, again, how 
fared it “under Syrian skies” and 
“By Judean Hills?’ There, in the 
long ago, dwelt a man who called 
His followers to leave all for Him, 
and as they responded to His call, 
Christendom lived. All organized 
effort was, clearly, against Him. 
He said: “I am the way, the truth 
and the light,” and the very mag- 
netism of His presence was all-suffi- 
cient. 
It has occurred to me, pondering 
long and deeply on this subject, that 
it behooves us to be watchful and 
to ask ourselves the question: “Am 
I loyal, and if so, to what?” Is it to 
the best element, the element in- 
capable of intrigue and cruelty, or 
am I loyal to my own interests 
alone?” 
We often hear the best and most 
earnest workers for church and state 
saying: “I approve of the man, but 
I must stand by my church or my 
party.” Each time we so act, we 
crucify, afresh, the Christ in man. 
God is represented, in this world, 
not by conspiracies, nor cast iron 
rules, that crowd out all individu- 
ality, but by His Spirit in human 
hearts and because of the love and 
loyalty diffused thereby. The 
church, what is it? Can we be 
loyal to a building or to a string 
of pews? No, never! Iie we-are 
loyal to an institution and disloyal 
to a man, it means, or it may mean, 
that we are loyal to the devices of 
several sharp-eyed, long-headed 
men and women, who have com- 
bined to maintain their personal 
power and crush out all individual 
feeling. If we are loyal to our 
party and disloyal to a man in 
whom we see embodied the traits 
we most admire, then we are wast- 
ing our fealty on an _  autocracy, 
composed of men _ who are com- 
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