And if we had a creed to which our members, black and white, our branches North and South and East and West, our college societies, our children’s circles, should all subscribe, it should be the lines of Lowell’s noble verse, lines that are as true to-day as when they were written seventy years ago:
“Once to every man and nation comes the
moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood for
the good or evil side;
Some great Cause, God’s New Messiah,
offering each the bloom or blight,
Parts the goats upon the left hand, and
the sheep upon the right,