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Rh development and a great national work are furnished us, as a new Christian state. Ve have soil, and sky, and bright heavens, and a luxuriant clime, and the broad, strong hands of hardy men, and civilization and histories, and the high inner instincts of true men, if we will but listen at times to our own hearts, and also the sight of numerous nationalities. These are the materials Providence has placed within our reach. Now, what we have to do is to show a quick, keen brain, and strong practicalness. We should throw ourselves, under God, upon our own powers and our own abilities. No other people are to come here and work for us; we have got to work for ourselves. And it is only by clearly, wisely, seeing this, that we shall be able to secure to ourselves the appliances of high culture, the fruits of hardy effort, the gifts of science and of art, the happiness of superior men, the respect and confidence of mankind, and the Divine benignity.

For now it comes about in the world's civilization that help, aid, support, are words that have a low significance. The Christianity of 2,000 years has not educated the world up to consideration for the weak, nor respect for the lowly and the feeble. That is to be left for a higher stage of human culture and the golden age beyond. The civility of the world has still a pagan element; it loves hardihood, robustness, strength, and mightiness. Even in its moods of benevolence, and in its fits of charity, it shows this peculiarity. The Christian merchants of London or New York dole out a partial, limited liberality to aid the heathen; they send golden masses of capital to 5