The New England magazine . rrator is able to see little that means prog-ress or achievement. Undoubtedly we arenot in such a season of calms to-day, andit is a source of congratulation, we think,that our lines are fallen in these livelier,more stirring times. WHO COUNTS THE COST? By HILDEGARDE HAWTHORNE Ye who count all the cost, and goSo safely on the paths ye know,Giving no more than just enough —What do ye know of sacred love? He that can make it all his bliss That another happy is, While in rags and sin and pain His days pass — ah, not in vain Such an one may claim to know Love, though wit
The New England magazine . rrator is able to see little that means prog-ress or achievement. Undoubtedly we arenot in such a season of calms to-day, andit is a source of congratulation, we think,that our lines are fallen in these livelier,more stirring times. WHO COUNTS THE COST? By HILDEGARDE HAWTHORNE Ye who count all the cost, and goSo safely on the paths ye know,Giving no more than just enough —What do ye know of sacred love? He that can make it all his bliss That another happy is, While in rags and sin and pain His days pass — ah, not in vain Such an one may claim to know Love, though with Death his footsteps go. Love that can break and mar and kill,With hell and heaven one moment fill;Love that takes all and passes on,But never to oblivion;Still unforgotten love must be,Though gone with all his he has left you only tearsAnd the gray falling of the years,That splendid instant of his stayFor all, and more than all, will pay. THE WORLDS DEBT TO HOLLANDIN THE CAUSE OF PEACE By EDWIN D. MEAD. HE year 1907 will be ever mem-orable in history as the year ofthe first real Parliament ofMan. The first Hague Con-ference, in 1899, with its rep-resentatives from twenty-six nations, couldnot fairly be called that. But the forty-sixnations represented in the august assembly,— whatever its particular achievements,the most significant political gathering inhuman history,— holding its sessions thisyear in the old Hall of Knights at TheHague, constitute substantially the civil-ized world. The history which is beingmade in Holland for the cause of interna-tional organization and progress is momen-tous; and there is a peculiar fitness in thefact that the scene of these events so preg-nant for the peace and welfare of the worldis the land of Erasmus, the author of thefirst great modern impeachment of the warsystem, and of Grotius, the founder of in-ternational law; the little land which firstpowerfully illustrated to the modern worldthe virtue of those princip
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