the other missionary societies and more frequent opportunities of
fraternal greetings with pastors and friends coming to the city.

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"KEEP PEGGING AWAY."


Abraham Lincoln packed into these homely words the expression of his
heroic faith and indomitable perseverance. When victory forsook our
armies, when elections at the North pronounced against the
administration, and when timid and disloyal people were clamoring for
"peace at any price," this great man, discerning clearly that only by
arms could the rebellion be crushed, acted upon this motto. He did not
mean by this that a mere idle pretense of doing something should be
kept up; he meant a steady pressure growing constantly more intense and
effective; when volunteering flagged, he offered bounties; when bounties
failed, he resorted to drafting. The army _must be_ kept up and it must
be fully equipped, and never did a more splendid army tread the earth,
and never was money poured out with so lavish a hand. The end came, and
it was worth all it cost.

The war settled two things--the unity of the nation and the freedom of
the slave. One thing it did not settle--the future of the Negro. That
question must be settled by his Christian education. This is just as
plain to thoughtful men as it was to Lincoln that military force only
could save the nation. But now as then, there are men who are
discouraged and who say that this process of education will take a long
time, and so, once more, the air is full of impracticable remedies--to
take the ballot from the Negro--to transport him to Africa, to the West,