The
student of history knows how true is the saying, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people," to be found in the fourteenth chapter of Proverbs.
When
Wendell Phillips declared that "one on God's side is a majority," he enunciated a fundamental fact, a fact which most men would be only too happy to prove true.
Mortals
habitually look to the future for the fulfillment of their hopes and desires, postponing the gaining of perfection, if ever it is to be realized, usually to some far-distant day.