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...most ignorant of the population; but to many they may be obscured by the mist of some private grievance, or by the misleading appeals of politicans to party loyalty. It is the educated man who can best estimate the good which has resulted from two years of patient unremitting toil in the behalf of the city, under circumstances of almost insuperable difficulty. It is he who can fully measure the wisdom of continuity in the city's policy, and the folly of surrendering our hard won gains to a horde of greedy spoils-men. It is he who through...
...Leland Stanford University and the University of Chicago have built up in a few years powerful educational institutions which in material resources, so necessary to a great university's welfare, and in attendance are no distant rivals of the New England universities built up through long years of toil and self-sacrifice...
...inner need of believing that the world of nature is a sign of something more spiritual and eternal than itself is just as strong and authoritative in those who feel it as the inner need of uniform laws of causation ever can be in a professionally scientific head. The toil of many generations has proved the latter need prophetic. Why may not the former one be prophetic...
...universal labor. To every human being is allotted a certain amount of work. If one person fails to perform his share, it falls to the portion of some other man to do, in addition to his own. There are no lands or peoples free from this inexorable condition of toil...
...live in the flesh. Faith in the Son of God is the source of all truly successful living. The faith which characterized every attitude of Jesus toward life is still the faith with which to meet the life which confronts us today. Trusting implicitly in God, we can toil on, knowing that all will be well. "Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," is surely a message more winsome than any other the world has ever heard. Faith in God will not free us from labor, but will lift...