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25. PATRIOTIC WORDS FOR THE YOUNG.

Extracts furnished from Address delivered in honor of Washington's Birthday, 1894.

ALL our knowledge of facts is worthless unless boys and girls have the life which shall use them well. It is not purchased science which we want. It is passionate love of country, and the one hundred and thirty-seventh Psalm, a "Psalm of exile," shows the feeling which compelled Israel to return to Jerusalem, her home. To a people of faith like hers, the love of country is like the love of home and of God. The three indeed are one. The man who sang this song lived in the midst of the luxury of the capital of the world, but he had not learned to chatter in the accents of a broken dialect, nor the languid negation of an absentee.

Now, in the training of our children, whether in city. or country, we want to teach them definitely, and at an early age, what their duties to the State are, and will be. A nation is not a heap of sand-grains. It is an organism all alive, in which each cell and germ feeds each other, and by each other is fed. And as every cell in an appletree belongs to an apple-tree, and every cell in an oak tree belongs to an oak, and as no cell can live alone, not an hour, so does every child of America belong to America, and America belongs to every child of hers. We are not attempting to describe, far less to measure, the strength of separate threads, all woven and twisted in the great webwork which we call America. But we are teaching them that that web has been woven by infinite love, that its history is history wrought out in God's purpose. And our boys and girls must, from the first, know that their life-blood gives the color, and their vigor, the strength, to the fabric. They are never to see their flag

without a grateful smile. They are never to sing her songs, but as they sing hymns in worship. They are never to call their birth a poor accident of fortune. Always they are to thank God, as the first of His gifts, and the greatest, that they were born Americans. Or, if

He have brought them hither in the shadow of His clouds by day, or in the blaze of His watchfires by night, from less favored lands, they are always to thank Him that America welcomed them with a mother's arms. You may call the organic tie mysterious. So is the attraction of gravitation. Nobody has ever explained either; but for all that, no man should doubt their power. Birth, blood, climate, language, history, the line of my ancestors, the color of the sunset, the shape of the snowdrifts, the old stain of blood on the pavement, or the memory of battle, every outward circumstance and every sacred memory combine to make my life and the nation's life. Because God is, and reigns, my country is, and I am. His life, my life, and her life are one!

Our boys and girls are to be trained, not only to know this, but to feel it. They are to be Christian patriots. And then we are sure that they will be good citizens. We do not build on their learning, nor on their graces, nor their creed, not, God knows! on their wealth. No! We ask them to love their home, because it is God's home; to serve the State, because it is God's kingdom; and this is the whole duty of man.

EDWARD EVERETT HALE.

PART XII.

THE FIFTH CENTURY OF AMERICAN CIVILI

ZATION BEGUN.

1492-1892.

1. A PROCLAMATION.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

WHEREAS, by Joint Resolution, approved June 20, 1892, it was Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, "That the President of the United States be authorized and directed to issue a Proclamation recommending to the people the observance of the discovery of America, on the twenty-first day of October, 1892, by public demonstrations, and by suitable exercises in their schools, and other places of assembly," —

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, in pursuance of the aforesaid Joint Resolution, do hereby appoint Friday, October 21, 1892, the four hundredth anniversary of the Discovery of America by Columbus, as a general holiday for the people of the United States. On that day, let the people, so far as possible, cease from toil, and devote themselves to such exercises as may best express honor to the discoverer, and their appreciation of the great achievements of the four completed centuries of American life.

Columbus stood in his age as the pioneer of progress and achievement. The system of universal education is, in our age, the most prominent and salutary feature of the spirit of enlightenment, and it is peculiarly appropriate that the schools be made by the people the centre of the day's demonstration. Let the National Flag float over every school-house in the country, and the exercises be such as shall impress upon our youth the patriotic duties of American citizenship.

In the churches, and in other places of assembly of the people, let there be expressions of gratitude to Divine Providence for the devout faith of the discoverer, and for the divine care and guidance which has directed our history, and so abundantly blessed our people.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, and of the Independence of the United States, the one hundred and seventeenth.

By the President.

JOHN W. FOSTER, Secretary of State.

BENJAMIN HARRISON,

2. WELCOME TO THE NATIONS.

Pursuant to the Proclamation of the President, the entire nation carried into effect the wishes of the American Congress; states and cities, schools and churches, uniting in one universal jubilee. Representatives from nearly all the governments of the world gathered at Chicago to witness the formal ceremonies of dedicating the proposed Park, and appropriate buildings, to a World's Fair, or Columbian Exposition. In the absence of President Harrison, during the fatal illness of his wife, the Vice-President, Levi P. Morton, delivered an Address of Welcome to the Nation's guests.

Extract from Address of Vice-President Morton.

DEEP indeed must be the sorrow which prohibits the President of the United States from being the central figure in these ceremonies. I am here in behalf of the government of the United States, in behalf of all the people, to bid All hail to Chicago! All hail to the Columbian Exposition !

I am not here to vaunt the wonderful story of this city's rise and advancement; of the matchless courage of her people, her second birth out of the most notable conflagration of modern times, nor of the eminent position she has conquered in commerce and manufactures, in science and the arts, or to dilate upon the marvellous growth and energy of the second commercial city of the Union. From the St. Lawrence to the Gulf, and from the peerless Cosmopolitan Capital by the Sea to the Golden Gate of California, there is no longer a rival city to Chicago, except to emulate her in promoting the success of this work. As we gaze upon these munificent erections, with their columns and arches, their entablatures and adornments, when we consider their beauty and rapidity of realization, they would seem to be evoked at a wizard's touch of Aladdin's lamp.

Columbus is not here in chains, nor are Columbian ideas in fetters. I see him, as in the great picture under the dome of the Capitol, with kneeling figures about him,

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