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Oh, Beautiful, our country,

Round thee in love we draw;
Thine is the grace of freedom,
The majesty of law.
Be righteousness thy scepter,
Justice thy diadem;

And in thy shining forehead

Be peace the crowning gem.

HEAR, O YE NATIONS.

(Written for the Second National Peace Congress.)
(Tune: Lyons.)

Hear, hear, O ye Nations, and hearing obey
The cry from the past and the call of to-day!
Earth wearies and wastes with her fresh life outpoured,
With glut of the cannon, and spoil of the sword.

A new era opens, transcending the old,

It calls for new leaders, for new ranks unrolled;
For war's grim tradition it maketh appeal,
To service of man in the world's commonweal.
The workers afield, in the mill and the mart,
In commerce, in council, in science and art,
Shall bring of their gifts and together create,
The manifold life of the firm-builded State.
And more shall the triumph of right over wrong,
Be shield to the weak and a curb to the strong.
When counsel prevails and, the battle flags furled,
The High Court of Nations gives law to the world.
And Thou, O my Country, from many made one,
Last-born of the nations, at morning Thy sun,
Arise to the place Thou art given to fill,
And lead the world-triumph of peace and good will.

-FREDERICK L. HOSMER.

NATIONAL HYMN.

God of our fathers, whose almighty hand
Leads forth in beauty all the starry band

Of shining worlds in splendor through the skies,
Our grateful songs before Thy throne arise.

Thy love divine hath led us in the past,
In this free land by Thee our lot is cast;
Be Thou our ruler, guardian, guide, and stay,
Thy word our law, Thy paths our chosen way.

From war's alarms, from deadly pestilence,
Be Thy strong arm our ever-sure defence;
Thy true religion in our hearts increased,
Thy bounteous goodness nourish us in peace.

Refresh Thy people on their toilsome way,
Lead us from night to never-ending day;
Fill all our lives with love and grace divine,
And glory, laud, and praise be ever Thine.

Amen.

QUOTATIONS.

There are two ways of ending a dispute discussion and force; the latter manner is simply that of the brute beasts; the former is proper to beings gifted with reason.

-CICERO.

If there is in the affairs of mortal men any one thing which it is proper to explode, and incumbent upon every man by every lawful means to avoid, to deprecate, to oppose, that one thing is, doubtless, war. -ERASMUS.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving a flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

-JAMES BRYCE.

New occasions teach new duties; time makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast with Truth;
Lo, before us gleam her camp fires! we ourselves must pilgrims be,
Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea,
Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.

-JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides
the bayonet.
-DANIEL WEBSTER.

The more you reduce the burdens of the people in times of peace, the greater will be your strength when the hour of peril comes. -BENJAMIN DISRAELI. The era of true peace on earth will not come so long as a tremendous percentage of your taxes goes to educate men in the trades of slaughter.

-REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFMAN.

The more I study the world the more am I convinced of the inability of force to create anything durable. -NAPOLEON, at St. Helena. War will eliminate itself. By the next centennial, arbitration will rule the world. -General SHERIDAN, in 1876.

If the press of the world would adopt and persist in the high resolve that war should be no more, the clangor of arms would cease. -JOHN HAY.

My first wish is to see the whole world at peace and the inhabitants of it as one band of brothers, striving which should contribute most to the happiness of mankind. -GEORGE WASHINGTON.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

-BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, in 1783.

I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures?

-THOMAS JEFFERSON.

I confess without shame that I am tired and sick of the war. Its glory is all moonshine. Even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, the anguish and lamentation of distant families appealing to me for missing sons, husbands, and fathers. It is only those who have not heard a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded and lacerated that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation. -General SHERMAN.

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage-a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. -Lord BROUGHAM.

In medieval times France and England knew the horrors of a hundred years' war. The time is not far distant when they will be able to celebrate the completion of a hundred years' peace.

-Ambassador JUSSERAND, at the Lake Champlain Tercentenary.

He who by voice or pen strikes his best blow at the impostures or vices whereby our race is debased and paralyzed may close his eyes in death, consoled and cheered by the reflection that he has done what he could for the emancipation and elevation of his kind. -HORACE GREELEY.

The Hague treaty stands for the arbitration of all difficulties between nations without exception. It is not generally known how broad and important an instrument it is. I regard it as the triumph of the nineteenth century that the nations could come together at its end and make a treaty like that. The tribunal has advanced more rapidly than did the Supreme Court of the United States in the first five years of its existence. In the future, instead of the barbarous cry "To arm. To arms!" we shall hear another cry: "To The Hague. To The Hague." -OSCAR S. STRAUS.

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