"But other nations added intellect to teach how to use power and we can no more despise the science and material progress that has resulted than we can despise our own bodies} Dut still it is not that that makes or has made nations great; nations that have so relied have either been a world of reality but an abstract impersonal world of force.
"But mai point to the weak-' ness of China and India and tell you. that among these strong and progressive world peoples it is necessary to emphasize power and progress in order to avoid destruction. And I would not have you deceived by the Sunday-School talk that no advantage is won by unrighteousness. In the words of one of the great ones of my natio With the help of unrighteousness men do. prospe:
'With the help of unrighteousness men gain victories over their enemies, 'With the help of unrighteousness men ddovattain what they" desir 'But they perish at the Toot,'
We have seen victories won by diplomacy and lies and material force, but there are signs in the civilizations founded on diplomatic lies and blind force that even now their doom is on them. Lies do pro-spor for a while, but the true life dies at the root, The World Defied. on must accept this prosperity, and power to-day, but there is tomorrow. This today is burdened with lies and oppressions, it is overburdened, it is sinking. 'I defy today and refuse to let it dominate my purposes. I rely on to-morrow with peace and faith. How do I prove it? I have no proof outside myself, in the depth of my soul. Even at the cost of martyrdom and insult and suffering we must continue to believe in peace and love and kindness and idealism. What is the value of success if it be at the cost of humanity and if it make a desert of God's world? I speak to you asa member of a nation that gone under in the race for progress and T tell you that I am ready to accept defeat and insult and oppression and weakness in the body, but I will never accept the defeat, the last insult, the utter ruin of my spirit being' conquered so that I lose my faith and purpose. My enemies thay conquer and slay my body, they cannot make me adopt their methods or hate them. The devil helps in the sphere in which he is. master, but we must reject such ald to save our life from utter destruction. Seck righteousness even though success be lost. I believe this not through the evidence of facts! Facts mislead and oppress you with mere numbers and quantity: the world of personality surpasses facts on every Truth comes from above, is conscious of infirmity and is creative. We have accepted and followed and ven-orate men who gave us such truth fand lost success. We need to hear} this again and again and never more than in this modern world of slavery and cannibalism in decent "By the help of unti men do prosper, men do gain victories over their enemies, men do attain what they desire: but they perish at the root."
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