The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.

We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.