flinging forth its
weapons, slavery perished before the onslaught of the heart.

The men whose duty it was to follow the line of battle and bury our
dead soldiers tell us that in the dying hour the soldier's hand
unclasped his weapon and reached for the inner pocket to touch some
faded letter; some little keepsake, some likeness of wife or mother.
This pathetic fact tells us that soldiers have won their battles not by
holding before the mind some abstract thought about the rights of man.
The philosopher did, indeed, teach the theory, and the general marked
out the line of attack or defense, but it was love of home and God and
native land that entered into the soldier and made his arm invincible.
Back of the emancipation proclamation stands a great heart named
Lincoln. Back of Africa's new life stands a great heart named
Livingstone. Back of the Sermon on the Mount stands earth's greatest
heart--man's Savior. Christ's truth is enlightening man's ignorance,
but his tears, falling upon our earth, are washing away man's sin and
woe.

Impotent the intellect without the support of the heart. How thickly
are the shores of time strewn with those forms of wreckage called great
thoughts. In those far-off days when the overseers of the Egyptian
King scourged 80,000 slaves forth to their task of building a pyramid,
a great mind discovered the use of steam. Intellect achieved an
instrument for lifting blocks of granite into proper place. In that
hour thought made possible the freedom of innumerable slaves. But the
heart of the tyrant held no love for his bondsmen. The poor seemed of
less worth than cattle. Because the King's heart felt no woes to be
cured, his hand pushed away the engine. A great thought was there, but
not the kindly impulse to use it. Then, full 2,000 years passed over
our earth. At last came an era when man's heart journeyed forward with
his mind. Then the woes of miners and the world's burden-bearers
filled the ears of James Watt with torment, and his sympathetic heart
would not let him stay until he had fashioned his redemptive tool.

For generations, also, the thoughts of liberty waited for the heart to
re-enforce them and make them practical in institutions. Two thousand
years before the era of Cromwell and Hampden, Grecian philosophers
wrought out a full statement for the republic and individual liberty.
The right of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness were truths
clearly perceived