em as much when they are unable to
work instead of comforting and nursing them when they lie in a sick
bed.

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A part of each day was always set apart for meditation and devotion; nor
this in time of peace only, for we are told that one day while the
Americans were encamped at Valley Forge, the owner of the house occupied
by the General, a Quaker, strolled up the creek, and when not far from
his mill, heard a solemn voice. He walked quietly in the direction of it
and saw Washington's horse tied to a sapling. In a thicket near by was
the chief, upon his knees in prayer, his cheeks suffused with tears.

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During the Revolutionary War, General Washington's army was reduced at
one time to great straits, and the people were greatly dispirited. One
of them who left his home with an anxious heart one day, as he was
passing the edge of a wood near the camp, heard the sound of a voice. He
stopped to listen, and looking between the trunks of the large trees he
saw General Washington engaged in prayer. He passed quietly on, that he
might not disturb him; and on returning home, told his family, "America
will prevail," and then related what he had heard and seen.

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THE ABUSE OF WASHINGTON

BY THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

On the last day in office Washington wrote to Knox comparing himself to
"the weary traveler who sees a resting-place, and is bending his body to
lean thereon. To be suffered to do this in peace," he added, "is too
much to be endured by some." Accordingly on that very day a Philadelphia
newspaper dismissed him with a final tirade, worth remembering by all
who think that political virulence is on the increase:

"Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes
have seen thy salvation" was the exclamation of a man who saw a
flood of blessedness breaking in upon mankind. If ever there was a
time that allowed this exclamation to be repeated, that time is the
present. The man who is the source of all our country's misery is
this day reduced to the rank of his fellow-citizens, and has no
longer the power to multiply the woes of these United States. Now
more than ever is the time to rejoice. Every heart which feels for
the liberty, and the happiness of the people must now beat with
rapture at the thought that this day th