unto patriotism. But the blood of Adams was in the veins
of the other youth. He thought of Samuel Adams, who heard the firing
at Lexington and exclaimed; "What a glorious morning this is!" He
thought of John Adams and his love of liberty. He thought of the old
man eloquent, John Quincy Adams, in the Halls of Congress, and as he
listened to the burning words of the speaker, tears filled his eyes and
pride filled his soul. It was his native land. With his heart he
believed unto patriotism.

What the man is determines largely what his intellect thinks about God.
When the heart is narrow, harsh, and rigorous its theology is despotic
and cruel. When the heart grows kindly, sympathetic and of autumnal
richness, it emphasizes the sympathy and love of God. Each man paints
his own picture of God. The heart lends the pigments. Souls full of
sweetness and light fill the divine portrait with the lineaments of
love. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness.

Happy, indeed, our age, in that the heart is now beginning to color our
civilization. Vast, indeed, the influence of library and lecture-hall,
of gallery and store and market-place, but the most significant fact of
our day is that sympathy is baptizing our industries and institutions
with new effort. Intellect has lent the modern youth instruments many
and powerful. Inventive thought has lent fire to man's forge, tools
for his hands, books for his reading, has lent arts, sciences,
institutions. The modern youth stands forth in the aspect of the Roman
conqueror to whom the citizens went forth to bestow gifts, one taking
his chariot, one leading a steed, the children scattering flowers in
the way, young men and maidens taking the hero's name upon their lips.
Unfortunately multitudes have declined those high gifts, turning away
from the open door of the schoolhouse and college; many young feet have
crossed the threshold of the saloon. Having entered our museum or
art-gallery, multitudes enter places of evil resort.

Despising the opportunity offered by music or eloquence, by book or
newspaper, by trade and profession, many choose sloth and
self-indulgence. These needy millions, blinded with sin and ignorance,
stand forth as a great opportunity for loving hearts. Sympathy is
making beautiful the pathway of knowledge, that young hearts may be
allured along the shining way. By a thousand arts and devices young
people of refinement and culture are foundi