ped to the
edge of the platform and faced the crowd. Among the five thousand
people who stood within ear shot at least a hundred recognized him and
gave a hearty cheer.

The doctor plunged at once into the message with which his heart was
quivering:

"Let no man tell you, my friends, that the God of our fathers is a
myth. You can't lose faith in God because you have not lost faith in
eternal justice. This faith is just coming into conscious existence in
the hearts of millions. By this sign we know that a new age is born.
Poets and artists no longer gaze into heaven. Their eyes are fixed on
earth. Men have ceased to long for another world, therefore their hope
is now for this one. To bring Justice and Beauty to pass on this earth
in wisdom and fearlessness of Death--this is the new creed of the
people!

"My friends, no such people ever lived in history before. This
continent has been the great white plain of eternity on which the
chains of ages have been broken, freeing the human soul and body at one
stroke, placing in men's hands, the mighty weapon of progress and
defense--universal suffrage. The workingman of to-day lives better than
the kings of the Middle Ages. Have patience, my friends, the workingman
of to-morrow will be the heir of all the knowledge, of all the pain and
all the glory of the centuries.

"There can be no other meaning to the drama of history, the sweep of
whose movement is always upward for the life of millions, always
writing in letters of fire across the sky 'THE LAW--THE LAW!'

"I have seen this mighty city grow from comparatively small and mean
conditions. And I have watched slowly growing here a new City of the
Soul, the gradual development of civilization itself into a joyous
religion whose God is Justice and Righteousness. Each year I have seen
the streets cleaner, its parks more beautiful, its homes sweeter, its
schools finer, its hospitals, asylums and play grounds more magnificent
and all its charities more efficient. I have watched the municipality
slowly but surely absorb the functions of the ancient church, and for
the first time in the history of the world begin to do its work with
the divine breadth of God's boundless love.

"We should not be so impatient, we should not be discouraged. The
progress of the world has really just begun.

"And so I, who watch the darkness pass and see the eastern sky begin to
glow--I cry to you who may still be below: 'Be of good cheer--the day