BY JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE

God sends duties to those who show themselves capable of duty, and power to those who are worthy of power.—Wm. McKinley.

There comes a time to Nations, as to man,

When God shall test them with a furnace fire,

Shall weigh them in the scales of His desire—

Predestined law of long predestined plan.

To him who measureth to the nobler span,

He maketh him a model and a chart,

Of all His ways a parcel and a part

Wherever Fate, His pulse of purpose, ran.