So, the wise men, they too have come!
Not to finger, nor to trifle;
Undismayed by war or ignorance,
Loyal advocates of unfailing providence,
Cabined not by years nor decades—
They look out upon the ages and can trace historic movements;
And for them a thousand years is no longer than a day.
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They look northward toward Ambition;
They look eastward toward a Manager;
They look westward toward a Holy City;
They look southward toward an Isthmus;
They look inward and declare, "Man was born to grow, not stop!"
They look throng-ward, to interpret the strange spell overcasting seers and doubters, and exclaim:
"The international mind subconscious is struggling successfully here to become conscious.
Yea, take the scales from your eyes and you will see
That the mind of man is becoming broader
And your brotherhood from a race is to be freed
As the pilgrims from the nations become the pioneers of the sphere—
As they catch the prophet's vision,
The Son of Man's distant vision of an essentially united earth,
When they begin to think the world-thoughts,
Irresistibly inspired by the spheric union of Jehovah's two vast seas."
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For the universal Father, the God of the united seas,
He is still the Lord of all might.
His strength is in genius, in love and in truth.
THE WORDS OF AN EASTERN SAGE
Charles Francis Adams, whose grandfather was one of our early Presidents and whose father was a Minister to London before the Civil War, felt with overwhelming reality the inspiration of the world vision.
Mr. Adams, a man of sound judgment and of importance and distinction, a month before his recent death, in writing about the European War, made the following sage remarks:
"We suddenly find ourselves thrown back an entire century. Again we are confronted by 'paper and blockades' on an almost unprecedented scale, and by 'Milan' and 'Berlin' decrees, with 'orders in council, in reserve and in response thereto.