The Abigail ..[Organ of the Abigail free school and kindergarten] . which for eloquence and pathos cannot besurpassed. We have invoked the God of Battles. TheAmerican people have before this learned thatthe God of Revelation is the God of , intolerantly, self-sacrificingly andprayerfully we must now await the issue, havingdetermined what that issue must be. Libertynow confronts bondage ; freedom confronts slav-ery ; mercy confronts cruelty; manliness con-fronts meanness ; virtue confronts vice ; plentyconfronts hunger; thrift confronts poverty; in-telligence confronts ignor
The Abigail ..[Organ of the Abigail free school and kindergarten] . which for eloquence and pathos cannot besurpassed. We have invoked the God of Battles. TheAmerican people have before this learned thatthe God of Revelation is the God of , intolerantly, self-sacrificingly andprayerfully we must now await the issue, havingdetermined what that issue must be. Libertynow confronts bondage ; freedom confronts slav-ery ; mercy confronts cruelty; manliness con-fronts meanness ; virtue confronts vice ; plentyconfronts hunger; thrift confronts poverty; in-telligence confronts ignorance ; civilization con-fronts barbarism, and tolerance confronts intol-erance. These opposites now face each otherfrom yawning cannon. While we are in thiscontest as a Christian people, let us pray forprinciple without passion, for indignation with-out anger, for patience without irritability forconviction without intolerance, for faith withoutbigotry, for purpose without presumption, forcourtesy without cringing, and for charity with-out malice. 42 the Abigaii. Mr. John S. Huyler, Our PARADE. As announced in a previous issue through ourkind friend Mr. C. H. RidgeAvay we were invitedby the Sunday School of the First East New YorkBaptist Church to join them in their exercisesand parade on Anniversary Day, which tookplace on the last Friday in May. Under threatening skies sixty of the childrenof the Abigail marched, headed by the Abi-gail Drum Corps from the School to the Bridge. Pedestrians thronging the streets, when theyheard the martial beat of the drums and saw thebig flag and the beautiful banners which withthe red, white and blue streamers flowing fromthe canes which the paraders carried, crowdedaround the little ones and cheered them as theypassed. When we approached City Hall the crowdsgrew so large, that the police witJi difficultymade room for us to pass. After a little wait at the Bridge, a large opentrolley car vvith our friend Ridge way onboard hove in
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