love their home because it is God's home; to serve the state because it is God's kingdom; and this is the whole duty of

man.

Edward Everett Hale.

Let me say a word for a little more patriotism in the schools. We have little in our every-day life to arouse patriotic ardor. We have no frequent or great exhibitions of power; no army to stand in awe of; no royalty to worship; no emblems or ribbons to dazzle the eye; and but few national airs. We have elections so frequently, and then'say such terribly hard things of each other and about the management of government, that I imagine the children wonder what kind of a country this is that they have been born into. There is no such inculcation of patriotism among our children as among the children of some other lands. If I had my way,

I would hang the flag in every schoolroom, and I would spend an occasional hour in singing our best patriotic songs, in declaiming the masterpieces of our national oratory, and in rehearsing the proud story of our national life. I would attempt to impress upon all the supreme value of their inheritance, and the sacred duty of transmitting it untarnished and unimpaired, but rather broadened and strengthened, to the millions who will follow after. Andrew S. Draper.

The idea that the United States are one nation, and not thirty-eight nations, is the grand cardinal doctrine of a sound political faith. State pride and sectional attachment are natural passions in the human breast, and are so near akin to patriotism as to be distinguished from it only in the court of a higher reason. But there is a nobler love of country patriotism that rises above all places and sections; that knows no county, no state, no North, no South, but only native land; that claims no mountain slope, that clings to no river bank,

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that worships no range of hills, but lifts the aspiring eye to a continent redeemed from barbarism by common sacrifices, and made sacred by the shedding of kindred blood. Such a patriotism is the cable and sheet anchor of our hope.

-John C. Ridpath.

What besides Patriotism is required to secure the permanence of Free Institutions?

A republic of freemen must rest upon the intelliof its citizens.

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In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. George Washington.

We are a Republic whereof one man is as good as another before the law. Under such a form of government, it is of the greatest importance that all should be possessed of education and intelligence. Ulysses S. Grant.

We are making the experiment of self-government, a government of the people by the people, and it has seemed a logical conclusion to all nations at all times that the rulers of the people should have the best education attainable. Thus, of course, it follows that the entire people of a democracy should be educated, for they are the rulers. William T. Harris.

The forest is fading and falling, and towns and villages are rising and flourishing. And, better still, a moral, intelligent, and industrious people are spreading themselves over the whole face of the country, and making it their own and their home. And what changes and chances await us! Shall we go on increasing, and improving, and united, or shall we add another

to the list of republics which have preceded us, and which have fallen the victim of their own follies and dissensions ? My faith in the stability of our institutions is enduring, my hope is strong; for they rest upon public virtue and intelligence. Lewis Cass.

A republic without intelligence, even a high degree of intelligence, is a paradox and an impossibility. What means that principle of the Declaration of Independence which declares the consent of the governed to be the true foundation of all just authority? What kind of "consent" is referred to? Manifestly not the passive and unresisting acquiescence of the mind which, like the potter's clay, receives whatever is impressed upon it; but that active, thinking, resolute, conscious, personal consent which distinguishes the true freeman from the puppet. When the people of the United States rise to the heights of this noble and intelligent self-assertion, the occupation of the party leader, most despicable of all tyrants,

- will be gone forever; and in order that the people may ascend to that high plane, the means by which intelligence is fostered, right reason exalted, and a calm and rational public opinion produced, must be universally secured. The school is the fountain whose streams shall make glad all the lands of liberty. We must educate or perish. -John C. Ridpath.

Will Patriotism and Intelligence alone insure the preservation of Free Government?

No; we need patriotism, intelligence, morality, and religion. The destiny of the Nation and its institutions is in the hands of the people. To make

the sacrifices necessary for the discharge of their public duties, the people should be patriotic; to administer their trust wisely, they should be intelligent; to insure justice and mutual confidence and respect, they should be moral; to reach the highest results in personal life and national character, they should be religious.

We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good, and of all comfort. Edmund Burke.

Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

It is a remarkable fact that the foundation of the Christian code, would have others do unto you,"

-George Washington. precept which lies at the "Do unto others as you was proclaimed as a moral

axiom centuries before the advent of the Saviour, and that He did not disdain to adopt it, stamping it with divine authority, and prescribing it for the government of mankind. If we are

to contend successfully against the social and political evils which beset us, it must be through a better observance of this and His kindred commands. John A. Dix.

If the second century of self-government is to go on safely to its close, or is to go on safely and prosperously at all, there must be some renewal of that old spirit of subordination and obedience to divine, as well as human laws, which has been our security in the past. There must be faith in something higher and better than ourselves. There must be a reverent acknowledgment of an unseen but all-seeing Ruler of the universe. His word, His day, His house, His worship, must be sacred to our children, as they have been to their fathers; and His blessing must never fail to be invoked upon our land and upon our liberties. Robert C. Winthrop.

Christianity is the only possible religion for the American people, and with Christianity are bound up all hopes for the future. This was strongly felt by Washington, the father of his country, "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen;" and no passage in his immortal farewell address is more truthful, wise, and worthy of constant remembrance by every American statesman and citizen than that in which he affirms the inseparable connection of religion with morality and national prosperity.

-Philip Schaff

Oh, make Thou us, through centuries long,

In peace secure, in justice strong;

Around our gift of freedom draw

The safeguards of Thy righteous law;