evertheless! and stay not,
turn not away for our folly, come with thy love-light, and smile-light,
and make the whole earth green with thy summer of delight.

It were a theme worthy of the place and time, if we could sketch out the
progress of mankind; to show how God laid the foundations of the human
race in the barbaric ages, strong, savage human bodies being the stones
thereof; how in due order, order as sure and stately as that of the
geologic eras, arose the Roman and the Greek, the types of full
developed body and mind together: how in the fullness of time
Christianity revealed the mighty powers of heart, conscience and soul,
which before were lying dormant in the human race; so that now at last
upon us has fallen the task of developing the whole of man,--body, mind,
heart, conscience and soul.

But my time, if not your patience, fails me: so I leave it as a hint for
future thought, and will in conclusion utter a few words of courage and
hope for mankind, which each event of to-day seems to strengthen and
enlarge. Yes, it is no longer fitting, that for the future we should
have few hopers and many fearers. Nay, rather let us all join hands
to-day, and form a great Electric Cable of Hope, that shall stretch from
sea to sea, from shore to shore.

For it is certain, then, that the planet upon which God has placed us,
is absolutely well fitted for the development of the human race. The
more Science investigates, the more wonderful seems the adaptation of
Human Nature to the world in which it is placed. The more refined a man
becomes, the more delicate his insight into Nature, the more satisfied,
the more overjoyed is he with her exhaustless charms. It is only our
sin, our folly, our ignorance, which perpetually befools us, and robs us
of our inheritance.

When the great coming race, prophesied of so long, shall at last inhabit
the earth, they shall see no more glorious stars, no bluer atmosphere,
than we do to-day; the moon shall pour forth no more silver from her
bounteous horn; the sun shall lavish his golden rays no more freely,
than he does to-day. But yet the whole world shall be unimaginably
brighter and more beautiful to that crowning race. And why? Because
their natures shall be in tune with the outward universe; their eyes and
ears, and all their senses, shall be unimaginably more acute than ours;
their bodies shall be perpetual sources of joy to them, and their souls
shall be awake to knowledge, truth an