Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

THE FIKST AND THE SECOND MAN.Illmonwealth as such, when traced through theeighteen centuries which it has hitherto run, presents.What nation can be compared to this nation? what people to this people ? what laboursto its labours ? what sufferings fc to its sufferings ?what conflicts to those which it has endured ?what triumphs to those which it has gained ? whatduration to that portion * only of its years whichis as yet run out ? what promise to its future ?what performance to its past ? What is thecourage and self-denial, what is the patience andgenerosity, what the genius, the learning, the sustaineddevotion to any work, shown by any humanrace, compared to those which are to be found inthis race of the Divine Mother ? How do thosewho are enamoured of nationalities fail to see theglories of this nation, before which all others paletheir ineffectual fires? How do those with whomindustry is a chief virtue, and stubborn perseverancethe crowning praise, not acknowledge herwhose work is undying and whose endurance " neverfails ? These men admire greatness and worshipsuccess. Let them look back fourteen hundredtyears, when that great world-statue seemed to bebreaking up into the iron and clay which ranthrough its feet. Then this kingdom was alreadygreat and glorious, and crowned with victory,and filled the earth. The toes of that statue havemeanwhile run out into ten kingdoms, and theislands which were forest and swamp when this