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214 poured hard shot against every honest dollar in the town! Politicians and lower-law divines look forward a great ways—don't they? There is One who seeth the end from the beginnings and by His higher law is it imperishably writ on every soul, "Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not prosper!" Shall we be warned by what we suffer? No, not yet. The new political party seems likely to adopt the worst principles of the old one. We must suffer much more, I fear, before we learn that, to be great and permanently successful, the nation must be just to all.

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Four years ago the nation sowed Atheism; see what it reaps in Boston, in New York, and San Francisco, in commercial frauds and peculation, in dashing away human life on the land or on the sea. This is very far from the end,—yet here may the dollar tremble!

But keep God's law; make the great object of government the security of every right; recognise that there is a natural and unchangeable law of God which has eminent domain over all human affairs; re-enact that into statutes; remember that religion is the mediator between man's desires and the Highest,—and all is well; you have wrought after the law of God's spirit of life; your money is safe; life will be respected; and the industrial Democracy, rooted in the soil of God's world, obedient to God's laws, will rise a strong and flame-like flower, abundant beauty in its leaves and blossoms, to bear fruit, and sow the world with neverending life, a blessed and abiding joy.