Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . o, We toil not for our-selves, but for others. Pere Hyacinthe, aftera tour in New England, saidhe had remarked in everytown three institutions thatepitomized American soci-ety,— the bank, the school,and the church. A truepicture. And you see theintellectual and the spiritualare two to one against thematerial, — the bank, the storehouse of gains and savnigs; the school and thechurch, the distributing reservoirs of what is freely taken from the bank andgiven to those educating and spiritualizin
Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . o, We toil not for our-selves, but for others. Pere Hyacinthe, aftera tour in New England, saidhe had remarked in everytown three institutions thatepitomized American soci-ety,— the bank, the school,and the church. A truepicture. And you see theintellectual and the spiritualare two to one against thematerial, — the bank, the storehouse of gains and savnigs; the school and thechurch, the distributing reservoirs of what is freely taken from the bank andgiven to those educating and spiritualizing forces of society. The Americans, says De Tocqueville, show by their practice that theyfeel the high necessity of imparting morality to democratic communities bymeans of religion. It is not on Sunday alone, as De Tocqueville imagined,that the American steals an hour from himself, and laying aside for a while thepetty passions which agitate his life and the ephemeral interests which engrossit, strays at once into an ideal world, where all is great, eternal, and pure. —/</., pp^ 2ig, U. S. Grant Keep the State and the Church forever separate.—U. , Speech to C. A. R., Des Moines, Iowa. POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE to5 The success of the United States in erecting at once a permanentand stable form of government, has been an astonishment to othernations. Edouard Laboulaye, one of the foremost patriots andpubhcists of France, just after the revolution of 1848 said: — In the last sixty years we have changed eight or ten times our governmentand our constitution; have passed from anarchy to despotism; tried two or threeforms of the republic and of monarchy; exhausted proscription, the scaffoH,civil and foreign war; and after so many attempts, and attempts paid with thefortune and the blood of France, we are hardly more advanced than at theoutset. The constitution of 1848 took for its model the constitution of 1791,which had no life: and to-day we are agi
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